Re: ASCII convention

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:51:07 GMT: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

>It was explained to me (to all the readers) years ago when I first
>started coming here. The two things * * and _ _ didn't simply indicate
>"emphasis," which was how I had interpreted them, but bold and italics
>respectively. Of course I never saw / / used for anything but phonemic
>transcriptions.

There you are right, that is my experience too. I learnt about /.../
much later.

There another advantage of CSS again: in HTML, emphasis can be
indicated with <strong>...</strong>, better than directly using
<i>...</i> etc. With external CSS, you can define what strong should
actually look like (italics, bold, colour, larger type, whatever)
elsewhere, but a whole site or parts of it, without altering any HTML.

--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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