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Also not to be confused with "<mark>" to indicate relevance. A use case might be if the respective part of the text is of strong relevance and you want to bring
by Garlef 4y ago
Also not to be confused with "<mark>" to indicate relevance. A use case might be if the respective part of the text is of strong relevance and you want to bring attention to it by emphasizing it.
But now I'm unsure if I should consider these distinctions <bullshit> or <horsecrap>?
- denton-scratch 4y agoThing is, when you're composing prose in your native language, you don't generally parse it and re-parse it to figure out whether some term is "relevant", or requiring attention, or in an "alternative mood". A native speaker/writer isn't normally aware of the grammatical aspect of what they write; they know how they want the text to appear. Trying to force writers to instead overlay a layer of meta-meaning on their prose, so that the meaning is expressed both in the text and the markup, is a fool's errand. It's a bit like a programming system that requires the developer to express his meaning in both Forth and Python; it's just asking for an author to write text that directly contradicts the markup.