---Sherlock, Ric wrote:
> ---Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
> > In dictionary page, I think replacing the top two tables
> > (for title and monad/dyad) with DIVs makes it worse in
> > a number of ways
[snip]
>
> Ignoring the DIVs vs tables issue for now ...
> I think it would be an improvement if it were clear, from the
> structural markup of the dictionary pages, that the monadic
> name, definition (and rank?) are linked and "belong
> together". Ditto for the dyadic name, definition and rank.
> Using the current markup structure, the names and the
> definitions are separated in different tables and there is no
> indication of their link.
>

Here is a possible layout of a dictionary Vocab page using one table instead of 
DIVs to layout the monadic/dyadic definitions, while attempting to structurally 
maintain the logical link between the names, ranks and definitions.

http://www.massey.ac.nz/~rsherloc/jdict/egpage2a.html   (d200.htm)

Compare with
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d200.htm      (original)
And
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~rsherloc/jdict/egpage2.html   (using DIVs)
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