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Posted by dorayme on 01/09/07 21:21
In article <8FKoh.160$kb.123@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit dorayme:
>
> >> Are there any circumstances where I can put a <div> inside a <p> or
> >> is this just part of using a Strict Doctype?
>
> > But can you think of a circumstance in
> > which you had a paragraph which suddenly broke out into a
> > rectangle underneath with something in it like a pic or movie and
> > then continued after with text and still be rightly a paragraph
> > in the ordinary understanding of this item? Surely not.
>
> I can, without problems. Actually I often run into such situations. For
> example, I might find myself writing something that needs to be illustrated
> with an image or a long formula or a multi-line code snippet inside a
> paragraph, since the explanation continues after it in a natural way.
I guess I was being miserably "typographical" in thinking of a
paragraph as a block of text with a continuous "thought" to the
sentences. Your idea is more generous, a class of grouped
thoughts that can include line breaks and pics and things. I like
your idea better even if it is a little harder to define.
About this business of definition, I am not talking of some
prissy dictionary definition but rather a general understanding
of what constitutes a paragraph. When has one made a mistake in
identifying the number of paragraphs in a block of text or page.
So far, my reply has contained 2 paragraphs under the simple
"typographical" idea. This is not to say it could not have been
less or more, given the thoughts I have expressed. But it is
clearly 2, right or wrong.
But if one imagines a page or more with pics and movies and
formulae on separate lines, I would say this sort of thing is
harder to count, especially for writers who are not the best and
clearest in their consciousness of what they are doing.
--
dorayme
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