[Scrollkeeper-devel] Re: extracted index

[Karl E. <ke...@gm...>]

Dan Mueth <d-...@uc...> writes:

> I'm curious where the rule against having running text in attributes
> comes from.  Is it technical, conventional, or aesthetic?

All three.  But you're sure you will never have to a further markup to
the text exeptions are possible.

> In the end, I don't think it will matter very much whether we use
> attributes or children since index files will never be written or
> edited by hand.

Okay.

> I think it does make things a little more clear in at least my
> email client, which does not put element names in grey ;)

Mine applies nice colors; Gnus treats SGML "tags" like quotation markers
;)  From the Gnus manual:


Article Highlighting
--------------------
   Not only do you want your article buffer to look like fruit salad,
but you want it to look like technicolor fruit salad.

Nice weekend,
Karl

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