Re: Two questions about formatting

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Depends. <em> is emphasized, not italic, though most browsers will show
it that way. Do you want to "emphasize" the words, or being scientific,
do you want some other type of .. emphasis? If so, then customize a
<span> for them.

Yeah, I guess it isn't for emphasis at all. It's the name of a bacterium that should be italicized. I was just wondering if this was treated differently than simply italicizing something for style.

The text in a paragraph element will wrap to fit the available space
when your page is displayed by the browser. You seem to be talking about
how it appears in your source editor. That's your choice. I usually type
about 80 characters and press return so my source is easily readable.

The problem with this seems to be if I need to edit that text later, the line breaks create a bunch of weird space in between the text. I also copy and pasted the text back into Word, and of course it was really funky looking.
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