On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:49:31 -0400, Sandy Feldman <sa...@sandyfeldman.com>
wrote to Freelance Traveller:
>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>.
This doesn't solve the problem - essentially, what I need is 'toggling'
styles. Suppose, arguendo, that there existed 'font-style-toggle:', and it
could take any value that 'font-weight:' or 'font-style:' would accept. In
such a case, I'd define both .booktitle and .editorial, _and_ the em tag to
use 'font-style-toggle: italic;', and then a .booktitle inside a .editorial
would come out upright, and a .editorial inside <em></em> tags would also
come out upright, and a .booktitle inside <em></em> that was itself inside
.editorial would come out italic, because the <em></em> would be upright
within the .editorial. Since 'font-style-toggle:' doesn't actually exist
(as useful as it would be), what I'm looking for is a way to "fake" it
without having to list all possible combinations to whatever depth may be
necessary.
>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?
I deliberately use em as the size unit specifically to accommodate people
with impaired vision who would prefer larger text. If they set their base
browser size to a larger size that they prefer, my text will conform to
their settings, while maintaining the relationship(s) that I establish
between various usages within my site.
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