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--- public:nnels:etext:text-breaks [2017/11/03 16:49]
farrah.little [Context Breaks]
+++ public:nnels:etext:text-breaks [2017/11/03 16:56]
farrah.little [Context Breaks]
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 Often images are used to represent context breaks. Images are a suboptimal way to indicate a context change because they carry no semantic information. Alt Text could be used to indicate context change, but it doesn't provide for a uniform reading experience.
-Although not ideal, our solution is to replace context breaks with three asterisks ''***'' in the e-text document. The asterism is the traditional way of indicating minor breaks in text.
+Although not ideal, our solution is to replace context breaks with three asterisks ''***'' in the e-text document. The asterism is a traditional way to indicate minor breaks in text. (In HTML5, the [[https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-hr-element|<hr> tag]] is used to indicate a thematic paragraph-level break in text)
-Sometimes decorative breaks come right before or after a new section (heading). In these cases, we do not need to replace it, rather we can just remove it entirely.
+Sometimes decorative breaks come right before or after a new section (heading). In these cases, we do not need to replace it, rather we can just remove it entirely since the headings imply thematic changes themselves.
 [[https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/Tutorial-Non-web-printing-01-BookMain-ChapterSpread.png|Example of a context break before a heading]]

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