[Doc-SIG] Re: [Docutils-develop] master plan for interpreted text?

[Beni Cherniavsky]

On 2003-02-04, David Goodger wrote:

> Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> > I'm thinking that following HTML's model may make sense: in addition to
> > *emphasis* and **strong**, have `italics`:i: and `bold`:b:. So if there
> > is no semantic class matching what you need, you just use one of these two.
>
> I'm reluctant to enable explicit italic & bold roles.  Even in HTML, their
> use is discouraged (although not deprecated... yet).
>
IIRC, XHTML 2 does this bold step.  No physicall formating provided (CSS
can do it all anyway).

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