Hi Jeff,
I would probably do something like this:
.italic .booktitle{ font-style: normal;}
Unless I'm missing a more complicated issue.
Hope that helps a bit.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 5:54 AM Jeff Zeitlin <edi...@freelancetraveller.com>
wrote:
> Normally, the title of a book should be set in italics. I'm a big fan of
> semantics, so I have a class called "booktitle":
>
> .booktitle {
> font-style: italic;
> }
>
>
> I also have a class called "editorial":
>
> .editorial {
> font-size: 0.8em;
> font-style: italic;
> }
>
> which I use for setting blocks of text that are author's or editor's
> comments or clarifications of the associated article text. There are a few
> other classes that I use that set font-style: italic; as well.
>
> However, when a book title appears within already-italicised text, it
> should be set as "roman"/upright/non-italic.
>
> (Technically, if font-style: italic; is in effect, _any_ text that would be
> italicised if set among normal text should be set as non-italic.)
>
> Is there some relatively clean way of defining .booktitle such that if
> {font-style: italic;} or {font-style: oblique;} is currently in effect
> (whether from applying the em tag, or another style that sets italic, or
> inherited from a higher-level style application), I apply {font-style:
> normal;}, otherwise, I apply {font-style: italic;}?
>
> ("relatively clean": I want to avoid javascript, perl, etc., for Reasons.)
> --
> Eönwë
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