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Comment #00254 - Fixed roman, fixed italic, fixed case - z39.96-2012.pdf

Comment 254
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ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite (version 1.0) (Revision 0)
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Jeffrey Beck
2013-05-10 07:22:02
This request is submitted by Jeff Beck on behalf of the BITS working group. It was originally submitted by "Newton, Simon - Edinburgh" <snewton@wiley.com> and Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex" <gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de> through the JATS List.

Discussion: Newton: I notice that the element <roman> is documented for use to make mark up text in roman script "no matter what style the surrounding text takes on", whereas <italic> is documented explicitly as acting as a "toggle" to change italicization depending on the context.

My questions are:
(a) Is there a mechanism to mark up "always italic"?
(b) Is there a mechanism to mark up "fixed case" (i.e., hypothetically, "<fixed-case>pH</fixed-case>")?


Discussion: Imsieke: (some?) emphasis elements should act as toggles. Or is it just italic?

I think this is acceptable for a generic emphasis element, but may be problematic when content (an inline formula symbol, for example) should be rendered italic no matter what. Making authors use MathML for those symbols is a thing that is hard to enforce.
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