[pmwiki-users] Re: Re: <div> markup suggestions...?
John Rankin
john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Tue Mar 1 15:14:44 CST 2005
On Wednesday, 2 March 2005 9:03 AM, chr at home.se wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>
>> rather than having to write out (:div class='Patrick':). Typing
>> the extra "(:div class=" is likely to get annoying.
>
>Why do we have to call it 'div'? That's not going to be very
>understandable for most users... would it make more sense to write
>something like:
>
> (:style Patrick:)
> Bla ...
>
> Bla...
> (:styleend:)
>
>I guess 'style' could be 'blockstyle' if that aspect needs to be
>emphasized, or borrowing from LaTeX, it could be 'env' (for
>environment).
On the whole, I think it's a bad idea to present divisions as
'styles'; rather they are a form of semantic markup, which
allows authors to ascribe /meaning/ to a block of text. How
the semantics are represented is a separate consideration.
This is one reason why I prefer symbols, such as
/patrick/
bla...
bla...
//
This allows those who think in terms of styles to see the
markup as a way of styling text, while those who follow a
semantic approach can interpret the markup as giving meaning.
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JR
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John Rankin
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