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5.6 - Logical Emphasis
These tags indicate the role of the marked text, e.g. bibliographic references. By using a standard way of marking up text, it becomes possible to automatically index such references. There are a potentially huge number of different distinctions that could be made, and the set given below is intentionally minimalistic. Discussion is welcomed on just which elements should be included in HTML+ given its intended role as a delivery format for hypertext documents:
- q
- a short quotation which can be included inline,e.g. <q>to be or not to be, that is the question</q> use <q> and </q> in place of double quote marks.
- cite
- citation, e.g. <cite>Festinger, L.(1957), <I>A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance</I>, Stanford.</cite>
- person
- proper names, e.g. <person>Albert Einstein</person>
- acronym
- acronyms e.g <acronym>NATO</acronym>
- abbrev
- abbreviations, e.g. <abbrev>v. aux</abbrev>
- cmd
- command name, e.g. chmod in Unix
- arg
- command argument, e.g. <arg>-s</arg>
- kbd
- something the use would have to type
- var
- named place holder, e.g. <var>filename</var>
- dfn
- defining instance of a term
- code
- code example - usually shown in fixed pitch font
- samp
- sequence of literal characters usually in variable pitch font
All these tags require a matching closing tag like the other emphasis elements, e.g.
<cmd>cmp</cmd> [<arg>-l</arg>] [<arg>-s</arg>] <var>file1</var> <var>file2</var>
HTML+ Discussion Document - November 8, 1993
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