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- >> I don't like them either. They are present in HTML to support
- >> importing (scanned) documents for which a filter has no way of deciding
- >> the original meaning.
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- > This justification doesn't sound terribly good. If we can't infer the
- > meaning of the font changes, perhaps translating the scanned document to
- > HTML is inappropriate; perhaps the scanned document should be stored in
- > TeX or Postscript or GIF, depending on what other image characteristics
- > of the document seem important. Or perhaps the font change information
- > should simply be discarded on conversion to HTML, as it does not
- > translate to meaning.
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- I think this is perhaps a bit extreme, and in practice most people would
- prefer some preservation of italic emphasis etc. (an empirical question)
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- > Or perhaps the right way to think of these is to apply the output rules,
- > in reverse. That is, the user can specify how <EMPH> is to be formatted
- > on output; similarly, perhaps the user could specify how bold font is to
- > be interpreted on input.
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- Perhaps we ought to use <EMPH> for all inline emphasis! This gets around
- the problem in dealing with every growing categories for different needs.
- You then would see elements like:
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- <EMPH tag="author">H. G. Wells</EMPH>
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- The Web could then have an evolving set of well known categories.
- Unrecognised categories would simply be ignored by the browser. Users
- would also be able to change how the browser renders each category.
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- Dave Raggett
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