atom feed10 messages in org.oasis-open.lists.docbookRe: DOCBOOK: Marking Up Taxonomic Names
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Mike TaylorOct 17, 2002 4:06 am 
Nigel HardyOct 17, 2002 5:03 am 
Areski BelaidOct 17, 2002 5:28 am 
Mike TaylorOct 17, 2002 6:07 am 
Nigel HardyOct 18, 2002 3:07 am 
Mike TaylorOct 18, 2002 4:01 am 
Norman WalshOct 19, 2002 9:24 am 
Norman WalshOct 19, 2002 9:24 am 
Dave PawsonOct 19, 2002 9:46 am 
Norman WalshOct 25, 2002 3:20 am 
Subject:Re: DOCBOOK: Marking Up Taxonomic Names
From:Nigel Hardy (nw@aber.ac.uk)
Date:Oct 17, 2002 5:03:42 am
List:org.oasis-open.lists.docbook

Mike Taylor wrote:

Then I wondered about <foreignphrase>, but first that's not really quite accurate, and second, the Processing Expectations section in the book just says "ForeignPrases are _often_ given special typographical treatment, such as italics" (emphasis added) which isn't good enough.

This seems quite correct to me. These names are in italics because they are foreign and, if the output mechanism cannot handle italics, some other mechanism may be used as a fall back (such as underlining as we did in the days of mechanical typewriters).

I do it regularly.

Nigel

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