Defining sections in Gemini maps?

[Jason McBrayer]

solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes:
[section headers]

> This idea has nothing to do with text formatting as such, and the spec
> would be totally silent on the presentation of these headings, with no
> implication that they should be in a different size, font, colour,
> whatever (though I suspect many clients might do this).  Rather, it's
> supposed to be a purely semantic thing, to *organise* the content in a
> long page.

I think that a lot of the other things that go under "text formatting"
have semantic value that clients could take into account, too. Things
like *emphasis* and **strong emphasis** (i.e., as opposed to italic and
bold). I like the idea of clients generating TOCs and so forth, but I
think it's an argument in favor of using a semantic markup language in
general. I'm not sure where you could fairly draw the line once you
started down that road.

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