On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:22:20 +0100, max <max(a)koehler-kn.de> wrote:
Speaking of semantic markup, what do you guys think
about replacing the standard 'bold' and 'italic' buttons in the visual
editor with a simple 'emphasis' button? In my opinion, that would help a lot with
these kinds of problems. In my opinion, we should make authors think less about
presentation (that's our job) and more about content.
It would also make authors raving mad, which is a reasonable reaction to having your
editing tools taken away. VisualEditor already gets enough hate.
Many things are traditionally typographically marked in italics – quotes, song titles,
regular mid-sentence emphasis, and I likely missed some – and Wikipedias have many rules
about what to mark with emboldened text (article lead usually contains bold title of that
article, various tables have bold headings, navboxes often use bold for content
information). And last but not least, people simply *care how their work looks*.
Unless you're willing to replace it with 20 new "semantic" buttons, you
can't kill the distinction between bold and italics.
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Matma Rex