linux-kernel - Re: Documentation files in html format?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0708091508330.3273@be1.lrz>
Date:	Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:29:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
cc:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation files in html format?

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Aug 9 2007 14:34, Bodo Eggert wrote:

> >I don't think <b> and <i> should be used, instead you should use styles
> >(<span class="code"> etc).
> 
> <b> does the same as <span style="font-weight: bold;">, and the latter is much
> more verbose for the same thing.

You shoud use neither. It's OK on homepages, but for documents, you should
be able to change the formating using stylesheet.

> >Things like <em> and <strong> should be OK, if used consistently.
> >
> >> Perhaps maybe <p class="block"> with .block{text-align:justify;}
> >> because that looks nice in general.
> >
> >If you like that, you can say "p {text-align:justify;}" in the default
> >stylesheet. (And if people would override the alignment, class="block"
> >would be the wrong name).
> 
> Oh that comes because MS Office calls it "Blocksatz" in German ;-)

I missed that point. What I wanted to say was: If the user overrides 
":justify", it would still be called "justified", which would be not 
justified.-)
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