Semantax for every situation
Semantics
Choosing the right semantax gives search engines and accessiblity tools important clues. This can help your readers find and understand your composition.
Headings and text
- Headings h1 to h6
- Building a sectional hierarchy through an implied structure outline.
- Ambiguous paragraphs
- Explicit and implicit paragraphs.
Structuring
- Articles and sections
- Dividing a document into articles and sections in a typical approach to organization.
- Floating aside
- Placing a parenthetical remark in a right-hand floating frame.
Typographic terms
- Bold versus strong
- Applying a heavy-weight font for signaling strong importance, urgency or seriousness.
- Italics versus emphasis
- Applying an italicized font or suggesting that the reader use an emphatic tone of voice.
- Underlined/unarticulated versus inserted
- Underlining a phrase to flag it for the reader's attention or marking it as significant versus signaling the addition of new text.
- Quotes, cites and blockquotes
- Three ways to signify someone else's words.
- Strikethrough versus delete
- Words that are no longer relevant versus signaling the removal of old text.
- Span and mark
- Highlighting notable words and styling a span of text.
- Keyboard and code
- Indicating text that is typed by the user and showing computer code.
- Small, subscript and superscript
- Adding fine print, chemical formulas, and exponents.