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RE: Why is text marked up ?

• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
• To: David Lee <dlee@calldei.com>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:34:28 -0500

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:16 -0500, David Lee wrote:

> "Is Markup ONLY for mechanical/machine purposes ?"

No. Human-readable annotations,vinsert/delete marks, glosses, references
(links) are all examples of mark-up for humans.


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• References:
  • Why is text marked up ?
    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>
  • Re: Why is text marked up ?
    • From: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
  • Re: Why is text marked up ?
    • From: davep <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
  • RE: Why is text marked up ?
    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>