Re: Emphasis or Italic?

Jelks Cabaniss wrote:
> Jon Noring wrote:
> 
>>That's the problem with italics and bold used in print -- they are
>>used in a whole slew of ways, and oftentimes to discern why something
>>is italicized requires understanding the context. If I were reading a
>>book in an unknown language (and maybe using odd punctuation), it may
>>be nigh impossible to figure out why something is emphasized. Now
>>imagine a text-to-speech engine encountering some text which is marked
>>up "italic". Is it a linguistic emphasis? Is it the name of a ship? Is
>>it a title of a book? 
> 
> 
> [x]HTML doesn't have nearly as much "built-in" semantics as say the TEI, but
> it does have `<cite>`, and I wish Markdown supported it.
> 
> For other "italics semantics", I suppose the best bet is microformats,
> though that's still sub-optimal:
> 
> 	She went down on the <em class="shipname">Titanic</em>.

... And pretty soon, to accommodate all this semantics, you end up with XML.

Shees!! I just wanted a rendering engine for my wiki!

/anton - semantically blind version of the  deaf dumb and blind kid!