Emphasis or Italic?

[Anton J Aylward]

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!