Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Including <b> and <i> in XHTML stylesheets

[Keith Fahlgren <abdelazer@gmail.com>]

As you've argued in the past, we don't have HTML5 stylsheets at this time. As for <b> & <i>, "their use is discouraged in favor of style sheets." We already use strong and em for emphasis, so the remaining font elements are purely presentational and make it more difficult to style DocBook (X)HTML output using CSS. 

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On Aug 31, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:

Keith Fahlgren wrote:

Looking at every single instance above, I don't see a single one that

should remain a <b> or <i> instead of being either removed or changed

to <strong> or <em>. Does anyone want to argue why <b> and <i> should

be preserved for 1.76.1?

Maybe I have missed some previous discussion, but what's the reason for
changing <b>/<i> into <strong>/<em>?

Also please note that HTML5 is not so antagonistic about <b> and <i> as
HTML4:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/text-level-semantics.html#the-i-element

           Jirka

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