Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 22:16 -0700 on 11/07/2010, LuKreme wrote about Re: i vs em and b vs strong: On 7-Nov-2010, at 11:31, Linda wrote: How do I prevent Tidy in BBEdit when I reflow a document from changing all of my i tags to em and all of my b tags to strong? You don't. i and b should not be used

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-08 Thread Linda
I am not going to argue about it. It was just a question. Just how much HTML code are you writing? Hopefully a whole library of books. It sounds like a Text Factory might be useful to you Thanks. I am using the demo version of BBEdit right now. I think that it is a lot more powerful than I

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-08 Thread Kerri Hicks
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:16 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: i and b should not be used. Right. Unless you need text that is italic or bold. user hat=typographer pedant I sometimes need to display type that is in italics, for the sake of being italic, and not because it contains any

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-08 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 7 Nov 2010, at 11:16 PM, LuKreme wrote: You don't. i and b should not be used. This is the case when the intended semantics of the markup is that emphasis and strong emphasis are to be indicated, and you don't care how the renderer accomplishes it. Sometimes, however, the intended

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-08 Thread Travis Butler
On Nov 08, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Fritz Anderson fri...@manoverboard.org wrote: On 7 Nov 2010, at 11:16 PM, LuKreme wrote: You don't. i and b should not be used. This is the case when the intended semantics of the markup is that emphasis and strong emphasis are to be indicated, and you don't

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-08 Thread golem
If you have an at-all-common case for the content of your site requiring a specific presentation, this is very simply accomplished with a new span class. USS Enterprise, defining span.shipname in your CSS as font-style: Italic; On an author's site, for instance, it might be common convention for

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:06 -0500 on 11/08/2010, go...@fred.net wrote about Re: i vs em and b vs strong: If you have an at-all-common case for the content of your site requiring a specific presentation, this is very simply accomplished with a new span class. span class=shipnameUSS Enterprise/span, defining

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-08 Thread stephen taylor
however you wish, but rude language does not help you make your case. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg rar...@banet.netwrote: At 13:06 -0500 on 11/08/2010, go...@fred.net wrote about Re: i vs em and b vs strong: If you have an at-all-common case for the content of your site

using the 'tidy' command-line tool (was: Re: i vs em and b vs strong)

2010-11-08 Thread Patrick Woolsey
At 14:12 -0500 11/07/2010, Morbus Iff wrote: Linda 1anml...@gmail.com asked: How do I prevent Tidy in BBEdit when I reflow a document from changing all of my i tags to em and all of my b tags to strong? Tidy does have this option at the command-line level (logical-emphasis), but I don't think

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-08 Thread Bill
I was going to stay out of this but foolishly decided to point out that in HTML5 specification, both the b and i tags now have semantic meaning. I quote from the Working Draft regarding the b tag, 'the element has now been given the specific semantic purpose of representing text “offset from its

i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-07 Thread Linda
How do I prevent Tidy in BBEdit when I reflow a document from changing all of my i tags to em and all of my b tags to strong? I know the debate about these tags. However, these pages will be displayed within a native iPhone/iPad app in a UIWebView. I am in control of the documents and they will

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-07 Thread Morbus Iff
How do I prevent Tidy in BBEdit when I reflow a document from changing all of my i tags to em and all of my b tags to strong? Tidy does have this option at the command-line level (logical-emphasis), but I don’t think you can tweak BBEdit’s implementation of Tidy to support it. What I’d do is

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:31 -0800 on 11/07/2010, Linda wrote about i vs em and b vs strong: How do I prevent Tidy in BBEdit when I reflow a document from changing all of my i tags to em and all of my b tags to strong? If you can not find the setting to prevent Tidy from doing this type of fixing/correction

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-07 Thread Linda
you can always just do a find/replace of em to i and strong to b just before you save Thanks. That is what I am doing now. I was just trying to save 2 steps since there are hundreds of pages. Linda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-07 Thread Gabriel Roth
I was just trying to save 2 steps since there are hundreds of pages. It sounds like a Text Factory might be useful to you. It would allow you to combine all your steps into one, and then run it against hundreds of documents in one fell swoop. -- You received this message because you are

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-07 Thread Rich Siegel
On Sunday, November 7, 2010, Linda 1anml...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. That is what I am doing now. I was just trying to save 2 steps since there are hundreds of pages. Taking a step back: what are you trying to accomplish? Tidy Reflow has a pretty specific set of behaviors, which includes

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:23 -0500 on 11/07/2010, Rich Siegel wrote about Re: i vs em and b vs strong: On the other hand, if you're counting bytes, then doing something which adds them is probably contraindicated. I agree. For that you would want to go with COMPACT. You can use Hierarchical ot Tidy before

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-07 Thread LuKreme
On 7-Nov-2010, at 11:31, Linda wrote: How do I prevent Tidy in BBEdit when I reflow a document from changing all of my i tags to em and all of my b tags to strong? You don't. i and b should not be used. I know the debate about these tags. However, these pages will be displayed within a

Re: i vs em and b vs strong

2010-11-07 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 08/11/2010, at 16:16 , LuKreme wrote: You are worried about a couple of bytes? ... The smallest iPhone holds 8 BILLION characters. There is a significant percentage reduction in file size effected when you replace strong and emphasis with b and i, especially in text which is heavily