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fdwojo · 08-12-2021, 04:19 PM

Does anyone know why Sigil uses for bold/strong and for italics/emphasis?

 is identical to and is identical to , and everything I read indicates that and are the preferred way to do it. And so, I try to be consistent with the recommended way.

Why does Sigil do it the older, original way? Or are all the HTML publishing guides wrong and we should use and instead of the longer variants? (and if it DOESN"T matter, why are all the style guides wrong?)

And lastly, if I wanted to, can I modify Sigil to use and when I bold or italicize text?

P.S. Granted, with all the posts here on the forum, I suppose it's possible to look through them all, or search them all, but I didn't find anything addressing this issue. (Sorry if I missed an existing question about this!)

Frank
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Using Win10 Pro and Samsung Note20

08-12-2021, 04:19 PM	#1
fdwojo Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: Samsung Note20 Ultra, Kindle Fire HD10	Why, Sigil, Why? And can I change you? Does anyone know why Sigil uses <b> for bold/strong and <i> for italics/emphasis? <b> is identical to <strong> and <i> is identical to <em>, and everything I read indicates that <strong> and <em> are the preferred way to do it. And so, I try to be consistent with the recommended way. Why does Sigil do it the older, original way? Or are all the HTML publishing guides wrong and we should use <b> and <i> instead of the longer variants? (and if it DOESN"T matter, why are all the style guides wrong?) And lastly, if I wanted to, can I modify Sigil to use <strong> and <em> when I bold or italicize text? P.S. Granted, with all the posts here on the forum, I suppose it's possible to look through them all, or search them all, but I didn't find anything addressing this issue. (Sorry if I missed an existing question about this!) Frank ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Using Win10 Pro and Samsung Note20 Last edited by fdwojo; 08-13-2021 at 02:53 PM.