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Re: Quad (was Spaces)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave_Raggett)
Wed Jun 16 07:33:39 1993
From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
To: terry@ora.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 12:27:38 BST
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Terry,
You say
> I think the various points of view have been well represented on
> this issue, and fairly economically, too. Let me make a practical
> proposal: I think I would be satisfied with a single white space
> character (or entity), something like Tex's \quad, that is, an en
> in the current font. Is this something we can all accept as needed
> even if some see it as impure SGML?
Did you mean "&em;" or <em> rather than "en"? I like your suggestion
it is simple and easy to implement.
Perhaps you could help me with a naming problem. In the HTML+ DTD I use
a single tag for all inline emphasis, using a string attribute value
to specify different categories of emphasis. My original name was EMPH
but feel this is perhaps too long. I then thought of contracting this
to EM, but see now that this might be confused with an em space.
Any ideas for what I should call this tag?
Best wishes,
Dave Raggett
