On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 2:04 AM Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: > > > No objection from me. Thank you!
Actually, before making this change, I started reading up on the HTML5 spec on the b, strong, i, em tags, and now I am confused as ever. Facts: - b and i are not deprecated - b and strong are both valid but their use depends on the writer's context (but Org mode has just one mark for either "*") - i and em are both valid but their use depends on the writer's context (but Org mode has just one mark for either "/"). >From "em" docs[em], in the NOTE section there: > The em element isn’t a generic "italics" element. Sometimes, text is intended > to stand out from the rest of the paragraph, as if it was in a different mood > or voice. For this, the i element is more appropriate. See the b tag docs[b] and i tag docs[i], and this W3C FAQ on using b and i tags[faq] for more. *Summary* (/see what I did there?/): I guess there's no need to change what "*" and "/" do right now in ox-html, as there doesn't seem "one right way" to do things here. And folks strongly wanting to use <strong> and <em> for bold and italic can customize org-html-text-markup-alist. HTML experts, please chime in. [em]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/textlevel-semantics.html#the-em-element [b]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/textlevel-semantics.html#the-b-element [i]: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/textlevel-semantics.html#the-i-element [faq]: https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-b-and-i-tags
