Hey Jeff,
maybe what you need is
.italic, cite {
font-style: italic;
}
.editorial {
editorial styles
}
and then you've got <div class="editorial italic"> and <cite>book
title</cite>.
Think about making the editorial font size at least 1em, so as to have
mercy on your older & your low vision users. There's other ways, right?
Sandy
>> On 10 Sep 2020, at 10:54, 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 (SpamCop subscriber, not staff/admin) >>
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