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In fact, when exporting to html you get a description list which is one of the most underused-yet-everyone-should-use-it-more html elements. On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:37 AM William Denton wrote: > On 17 June 2022, Cletip Cletip wrote: > > > Final question : why do you use description lists and not another ? > > When I have a list of things I want to briefly descibe! That's all. It's > just > a way of formatting a list of things where there's a term (a word, a name, > a > title) that has some descriptive text. Sometimes I use them when there's > an > obvious term/description pairing, and sometimes when I have a text-heavy > list of > things and I want to have a brief summary of each to make it easier to > read. > > > Bill > > -- > William Denton > https://www.miskatonic.org/ > Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator. > Toronto, Canada > > --00000000000087c48205e1a4ebef Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
It is not quite true that it's just a way of formattin= g, there is a semantic element to it as well where someone parsing your doc= ument programmatically can now know that what you have is a list of terms p= aired with their descriptions. In fact, when exporting to html you get a des= cription list=C2=A0which is one of the most underused-yet-everyone-shou= ld-use-it-more html elements.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:37 AM William Dento= n <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:
On 17 June 2022, Cletip= Cletip wrote:

> Final question : why do you use description lists and not another ?
When I have a list of things I want to briefly descibe!=C2=A0 That's al= l.=C2=A0 It's just
a way of formatting a list of things where there's a term (a word, a na= me, a
title) that has some descriptive text.=C2=A0 Sometimes I use them when ther= e's an
obvious term/description pairing, and sometimes when I have a text-heavy li= st of
things and I want to have a brief summary of each to make it easier to read= .


Bill

--
William Denton
https://www.miskatonic.org/
Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
Toronto, Canada

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