Re: About 'inline special blocks'

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 19/06/2022 19:47, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> 
> I am more and more convinced that inline special blocks, by their
> nature, should not support fine tune options or anything like
> attr_latex, attr_html, etc. like its older brothers, as it would produce
> an overly complicated syntax.

I would like to stress that styles can not be a rescue in some important 
cases. Let's leave aside ad hoc final tuning of formatting. In the case 
of HTML export there are still <img alt="Description"> and <a href="..." 
title="Description"> attributes that are namely per-object, not part of 
style.

I was going to raise this issue for several months, so I just have sent 
to following bug report:
Max Nikulin to emacs-orgmode. [BUG] manual: confusing example of adding 
attributes to a link (affiliated keywords) Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:25:29 
+0700. https://list.orgmode.org/t8q71r$mgv$1@ciao.gmane.io

I have not heard that PDF offers something similar, but e.g. link with 
title may be exported as footnote with title text and URL instead of 
inline link. However to handle such cases generic attributes available 
to all export backends should be introduced.

Even when styles are enough in principle, attributes may be more 
convenient since the latter may be composable, so making unnecessary 
defining every possible (or used) combination of styles.

> in html:
> 
> <name>contents></name>

Concerning <name> vs. <span class="name">, is it the same for assistive 
technologies like screen readers to add <strong>text</strong> (or 
<b>text</b>) and <span class="strong">text</span> with "font-weight: 
bolder;" in CSS?