A lot of syntax highlighting software lets you customize the rendering. More 
importantly, highlighting is usually done based on the syntax without 
considering the semantics. Semantic markup enables a lot more than just how an 
editor renders the source code.

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:18:26 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>I'm painfully aware of the difference between semantic and presentation 
>markup, and wish that there was more support for semantic markup.
>
Largely, I favor semantic markup.  *Except* when others and I
post code snippets and an editor italicizes pathnames.

>I don't do BASIC, but I do Perl.

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gil

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