Re: @quotation and @indentedblock in html and DocBook

2014-12-18 Thread Karl Berry
for example using semantic output could allow better accessibility No question. But that's not what's going on here. Neither nor css indent is especially semantic. If anything, is more so. Aside: Indeed, one of my recurring problems with CSS is that it is routinely used to (try to) for

Re: @quotation and @indentedblock in html and DocBook

2014-12-18 Thread Gavin Smith
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Ineiev wrote: > I attach what lynx prints for me (what I see on the screen is colored, > but the indents are the same). The first paragraph, "Here is > an indented block:", has the same indent as the subsequent one, > "US and Cuba are to start talks to normalise...

Re: @quotation and @indentedblock in html and DocBook

2014-12-18 Thread Ineiev
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 04:05:02PM +, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Ineiev wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 03:41:40PM +, Gavin Smith wrote: > >> I just tried the HTML output for @indentedblock in Lynx 2.8.7rel.1, > >> and surprisingly the @indentedblock was inden

Re: @quotation and @indentedblock in html and DocBook

2014-12-18 Thread Gavin Smith
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Ineiev wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 03:41:40PM +, Gavin Smith wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Karl Berry wrote: >> > (BTW, does lynx/etc. render CSS?) >> > >> >> I just tried the HTML output for @indentedblock in Lynx 2.8.7rel.1, >> and surpris

Re: @quotation and @indentedblock in html and DocBook

2014-12-18 Thread Ineiev
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 03:41:40PM +, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > > (BTW, does lynx/etc. render CSS?) > > > > I just tried the HTML output for @indentedblock in Lynx 2.8.7rel.1, > and surprisingly the @indentedblock was indented (although by a >

Re: @quotation and @indentedblock in html and DocBook

2014-12-18 Thread Gavin Smith
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > I am aware that W3C wants everyone to use CSS for everything, but my > experience with what works best is different, and I don't think it's a > good idea to just do things because W3C says so. > > Using basic HTML tags like that have been arou

Re: gavin -> new maintainer

2014-12-18 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) () Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:59:15 GMT Please welcome and support [Gavin Smith]! Welcome! And, a big thanks to Karl Berry. -- Thien-Thi Nguyen GPG key: 4C807502 (if you're human and you know it) read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical)

Re: gavin -> new maintainer

2014-12-18 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:59:15PM +, Karl Berry wrote: > As some people here already know, Gavin (Smith) has been doing a > tremendous amount of work with Texinfo for a while, especially the Info > viewer, but in plenty of other areas too. I've asked him to become the > new principal maintain