On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:29:27PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > One thing not to forget here is the following question: how long > typically, or even maximally, are the pieces of text you would paint > "Noun" -- or any other logical charstyle for that matter? > > I think typically they are small, and only exceptionally more than > one, two, three words. If they become whole paragraphs, that would > point to the need to create a paragraph style for that.
They are typically small. > Forgive me for pointing out that we are living in a "finger painting > matrix" where people expect to be able to, and routinely practice, > painting large areas of text in whatever visual style they find > suitable, rather than building the appearance upon suitably > (semantically) defined logical styles, be they paragraph of character > styles. That's the way to create documents that are output-able but > don't self-document their structure. Even LaTeX has a bit of this > implicit philosophy. > > Shouldn't we set a better example? Certainly we should. What does this have to do with the question at hand ? LCS via ranges does not apply an abandonment of semantic markup; why do you think it does ? regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.
