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On 11/29/2010 04:48 PM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote:
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On 11/29/2010 11:57 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Um, strictly speaking a markup scheme (such as ThML) is divorced from
presentational issues. Markup should identify document structure it
shouldn't deal with display at all. But then having been a member of
IEC/ISO TC1/SC18/WG8 at the time SGML was being standardised I have a very
dogmatic view of markup; generalised not procedural. Sadly after all our
efforts in WG8 to separate the two things the creators of HTML mixed them
up again. Duh!</pre>
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Of course they did! That is because presentational issues are
IMPORTANT. No purely structural document can long survive in total
absence of some way to control the presentation. CSS helps...<br>
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Presentation gives context for the content. Go ahead and look through
a complex table presented as plain-text with footnotes crammed inline
and you'll see that while it
may technically put the content on the screen, it doesn't present the
full idea before the reader.<br>
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Even looking at html with only basic formatting can do the same.
Compare:<br>
<blockquote><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf09.iii.iii.html">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf09.iii.iii.html</a><br>
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to the original. Start at page 10 here:<br>
<blockquote><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ApMsAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=ApMsAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false</a><br>
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Note that you should be looking at two pages side-by-side. It is much
easier to grasp the full concept in the original book.<br>
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There is a reason why formatting has been important for centuries now.<br>
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Brian<br>
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