Hello Sam,
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:31:42PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
> what I am trying to say is that "em" is not the same as "i" and
> rendering <varname> as <em> is may be wrong because then the
> variable names will be italic in some places and normal in others.
As far as I can see, browsers don't work like LaTeX in this regard.
That is they (arguably incorrectly---IMHO, the LaTeX behaviour is
correct) don't _toggle_ italics on the 'em' element. The following
fragment:
<p><em>This is an emphasised sentence with an <em>emphasised</em> word
in it.</em></p>
renders wholly in italics on both IE 6 and Firefox 1.0 here.
--
Paul.
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