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Re: Antwort: Re: DAVENPORT: Three more Questions.


> Fine, so ignore it. In a mixed structural/graphical markup, graphical
> markup should be considered a set of hints to the typesetting engine,
> nothing more. It's still nice to have.

No, sometimes they are compulsory: imagine an editor primer...

   <P>You can use the menus to change the style of your text.
   Italics look like this: <sometag someattribute="something">italics</>
   and bold type looks like this <sometag 
   someattribute="somethingelse">bold</></p>

It is a common error to assume that typographic variance is merely
decoration. Sometimes it is instructional and requires accurate markup.
A stylesheet is also an important part of this, but if an author is
describing the typographic properties of a program, then a requirement
to display or print italics for illustrative purposes is a REQUIREMENT,
not a hint or an option. How it is instantiated is up for discussion.

///Peter


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