Currently the dialogue of TeXtalk is formatted by <strong>
for the speaker and <p>
to separate lines. Here is an example from the interview with Yiannis Lazarides:
This format may be confusing when a speaker is listed with multiple paragraphs in that it is not obvious who says what.
I suggest to format the dialogue as a definition list, i.e. as <dl>
(the HTML similar of the description
environment). The screenshot below is an example of such formatting. Note this makes it very clear which speaker a paragraph belongs to even if there are multiple paragraphs. Also note that the colon after the speaker in the old format is no longer needed.
A less obvious advantage of this format is that it is semantically more correct in that a definition, <dd>
, following a term, <dt>
, belongs to it in a sense, e.g. every <dd>
directly following a <dt>Paulo</dt>
is something said by Paulo.
<dl>
<dt>Paulo</dt>
<dd>
<p>Indeed. I remember one of your answers where you said something
like “if typographical rules can be deduced, we can incorporate
them”. It’s very challenging.</p>
<p>Speaking of typography, you
are <a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/152/typography">the
first user to earn the <code>typography</code> badge</a>! How did
you become so acquainted with it? <code>:)</code></p>
</dd>
<dt>Yiannis</dt>
<dd>
<p>I was not aware I was the first user. I think it was just a
miracle that I was the first user to get it. <code>;)</code></p>
<p>I always had an interest in it. I read some of Knuth’s
writings and one day it struck me. What he did was to study all
the maths publications and deduce some typographical rules. I am
currently doing the same with images and layouts (he conveniently
missed this otherwise he would have still been busy with
TeX). Small things like don’t put a small image on a page on
its own can make a big difference.</p>
<p>He also left color out. Color is very difficult to handle
correctly from a typography point of view.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
With the old formatting the owner of multiple paragraphs is not as clear.
<p><strong>Paulo:</strong> Indeed. I remember one of your answers
where you said something like “if typographical rules can be deduced,
we can incorporate them”. It’s very challenging.</p>
<p>Speaking of typography, you are <a
href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/badges/152/typography">the first
user to earn the <code>typography</code> badge</a>! How did you become
so acquainted with it? <code>:)</code></p>
<p><strong></strong><strong>Yiannis:</strong> I was not aware I was
the first user. I think it was just a miracle that I was the first
user to get it. <code>;)</code></p>
<p>I always had an interest in it. I read some of Knuth’s
writings and one day it struck me. What he did was to study all the
maths publications and deduce some typographical rules. I am currently
doing the same with images and layouts (he conveniently missed this
otherwise he would have still been busy with TeX). Small things like
don’t put a small image on a page on its own can make a big
difference.</p>
<p>He also left color out. Color is very difficult to handle correctly
from a typography point of view.</p>
One thing I left out above is that to achieve the suggested format one need to style the relevant <dt>
tags as bold. Globally this can be done by something like:
dl dt {
font-weight: bold;
}