On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:33:41AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
Please
don't use it for something else, even if it seems somewhat useful
for another purpose. It is _designed_ for poems, and it is supposed to
mark up only poems. If you find another use, a new tag can be introduced
that behaves in a very similar way.
Why? That seems needlessly complex. If one has need for the same
functionality for multiple purposes, it doesn't strike me as a net win
to have eight different syntaxes to do the same thing. Is there some
specific reason that it should be divided by intent rather than purpose,
thusly?
[ looks a second time ]
That's *you* asking that, Chaper?
Semantic markeup, of course.
What's needlessly complex is deciding that such a new tthing which isn't
a poem but might look the same now should then look different...
after 10,000 non-poem things have been tagged <poem>.
Cheers,
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