Posted by John Salerno on 01/31/06 22:09

Hi everyone. I have a couple of (probably simple) questions about how to
format some text in a paragraph.

First up is the easier one to explain: If I have scientific words that I
want italicized, is that best done with <em> or a <span>? (My guess is
span).

Second thing: If I have several lines of text to put into a <p> and I
want to keep the text within a certain number of columns in my text
editor (instead of having the whole paragraph taking up one really
really long line), is it a good idea to manually press ENTER where I
want the text to stop, or does that somehow affect the formatting? One
thing it does affect, I can say, is when you need to go back and change
the text, then you can see where you pressed ENTER. Should I just do a
wordwrap instead?

Thanks!
John

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