[WikiEN-l] Reading Software

tarquin tarquin at planetunreal.com
Tue Jan 13 17:31:46 UTC 2004



Nikos-Optim wrote:

>Considering that we usually don't put some punctuation
>(; . , :) after headings (section titles), List items,
>See also listings where a list is utilised, etc etc...
>I am afraid to say that the current Wikipedia style
>seems to be unfair to Reading Software (software which
>converts text into voice, Example: Adobe 6). Reading
>Software uses the punctuation to make pauses, and
>cannot get into account the document's markup and
>format (headings etc). Lately I started putting :
>after headings and ; or . after list items, but I
>found the visual result disgusting and hard-to-read.
>  
>
I am aware of this problem.
I must say that in this instance, it is the reading software that is 
broken and must be fixed.
It SHOULD know to pause after a H* HTML element!!!!!




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