Re: How to treat emphasised text?

> The etext has converted almost all the emphasised text (in both hard
copies
> I have, shown in italics) to uppercase - almost, but not all: an
emphasised
> "I" is shown as "_I_". My inclination is to convert all such text (mostly
> single words) to the inline <ital>lowercase</ital> form.

I would go with your inclinations!

To add to my
> inclination, the hard-copy versions also use uppercase for a different
type
> of emphasis in parts of the text (labels and signs); these words and
phrases
> would then be apparent as different from other emphasised text. Is this an
> acceptable method of marking-up the etext?

It's probably small caps. If this is the case use <emph
type="smallcaps">TEXT IN CAPITALS</emph>

If it is infact true capitals then I think it would be OK to convert to
Capitals without the emph element, but I would use <emph type="UCASE"> just
to be on the safe side.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Parker <RobParker(at)access.net.au>
To: Gutenberg list <hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 4:19 AM
Subject: How to treat emphasised text?


> I'm currently marking up "Through the Looking Glass", and I'm using an old
> "dead-tree" copy, and a more recent annotated copy ("The Annotated Alice",
> by Martin Gardner), to help me figure out what's what.
>
> Query 1 (more posts to follow!):
> The etext has converted almost all the emphasised text (in both hard
copies
> I have, shown in italics) to uppercase - almost, but not all: an
emphasised
> "I" is shown as "_I_". My inclination is to convert all such text (mostly
> single words) to the inline <ital>lowercase</ital> form. To add to my
> inclination, the hard-copy versions also use uppercase for a different
type
> of emphasis in parts of the text (labels and signs); these words and
phrases
> would then be apparent as different from other emphasised text. Is this an
> acceptable method of marking-up the etext?
>
> Rob
>
>

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