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.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2025 12:10 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: In IBM-land, AFP means... External Message: Use Caution 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. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
