Re: div and p

Martin Holmes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.tei.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2017-01-13 12:49 AM, Dominique Mee ùs wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 01:32:23 +0100, Marjorie Burghart
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> … but I REALLY do not want my little paragraph to have a title -
>> that would be against all conventions of Western typography.
>
> But for you to consider this paragraph as something else than just
> the next paragraph of the last div, there must have been some Western
> typographical sign for this. It maybe some decoration like an
> asterism ⁂ (U+2042) or significantly more white space than usual.
> This decoration or this extra white space means: “Beware, the
> following paragraph is a some kind of conclusion or transition.” This
> is nearly a title. You could there begin a new div with head element
> containing the asterism or other decoration, or some no break spaces
> (U+00a0). Is this cheating with a workaround? To me it seems (nearly)
> semantically honest.

The assumption that there must be some typographical feature that 
signals the structural organization seems a risky one to me. Perhaps the 
structure is inherent in the textual content or the argumentation alone?

Cheers,
Martin
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