Re: div and p

Right. divs are semantic / structural units, which may or may not
be indicated by visible markers in the print source. It is not only
possible but extremely common to have divs without heads, trailers,
openers, arguments, or any div-liminal elements at all, or indeed
anything but the logical structure of the text.

(and OTOH, it is of course common to find head-like objects
which do not function as the head of any definable div, and
must therefore be relegated to some other status, e.g.
note or label.)

pfs


On Fri, Jan 13, 2017, at 08:36, Martin Holmes wrote:
> 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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