Re: using <dfn> tag first time
- From: "David Trimboli" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:03:39 -0400
The Bicycling Guitarist Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
<p>
Ernest K. Gann was a pilot himself, and his love of flying shows in the
books he wrote. Some of the author's culture
is also revealed by his choice of vocabulary. His use of one word in
particular dates him. Throughout this book, E.
K. Gann refers to antiaircraft fire as <dfn>Flak</dfn>.
‘Flak’ as a term did not come into use until World War Two,
which was E. K. Gann's time. It was the short form of a term introduced
by the Nazi <span lang="de">Luftwaffe</span>
to designate antiaircraft artillery. This word was coined in 1938
<cite>(Merriam-Webster)</cite>.
</p>
Helmut Richter <hhr-m@xxxxxx> wrote:
DFN:
Indicates that this is the defining instance of the enclosed term.
It does not say how it is used, let alone that it be used with a title
attribute. The quoted URL uses it for something else, certainly not
for a definition of a term. So, please, share with us in which
document you have found the details you are explaining us.
There is a common printing style which italicizes words when they first appear and are defined in the text. (Quotation marks are considered incorrect and should be used only for quotations.) If the text were a lesson, the defined words would be the vocabulary list. Subsequent uses of the word are not italicized. I believe this is the function of DFN.
There is another style rule which states that words treated as words in a sentence (instead of the things they represent) should be italicized as well. This may be a superset of the previous rule.
The Bicycling Guitarist has used DFN correctly in his example. However, a more correct version may be:
<p>
Ernest K. Gann was a pilot himself, and his love of flying shows in the
books he wrote. Some of the author’s culture
is also revealed by his choice of vocabulary. His use of one word in
particular dates him. Throughout this book, E.
K. Gann refers to antiaircraft fire as <dfn>flak</dfn>.
<span class="word">Flak</span> as a term did not come into use until World War II,
which was E. K. Gann’s time. It was the short form of a term introduced
by the Nazi <span lang="de">Luftwaffe</span>
to designate antiaircraft artillery. This word was coined in 1938.
<cite>(Merriam-Webster)</cite>.
</p>
David
Stardate 7580.7
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