Posted by John Salerno on 02/01/06 03:06

Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, John Salerno wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone. I have a couple of (probably simple) questions about
>> how to format some text in a paragraph.
>
> Hint: it's poor usenet strategy to ask two unrelated questions
> together. You just get one contorted thread. And the original
> subject line is useless too, to anyone who's looking to see if their
> question has been discussed before. I've taken the liberty of
> addressing one question, and setting the Subject line accordingly.

Thanks for telling me this. I actually thought maybe it was rude to make
multiple posts in a row asking questions, but I can see how one thread
would get convoluted.

>> 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).
>
> Just what do you mean by "scientific words"?

In this case it is "Pseudomonas fluorescens," which is a class of bacteria.

> In their appropriate places, don't overlook the other semantic markups
> such as <var>, <cite>, etc.

Yes, this is what I was curious about. I didn't know if there was a tag
that was close to what I want, sort of like <code> is there for code,
etc. I didn't know if there was something for genus and species, for
example, or anything else like that. <span> was my first choice, but
it's not very specific.

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