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Re: Strike-through Text

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Mar 27, 2013 9:22PM

Mohit wrote: "The strike through text is similar to deleted text (same can
be viewed using Microsoft Word Track Changes feature), one of the solution
the web developers could provide is to place the strike through word in
between explicit tags such as <Start Delete> and <End Delete>."

As an editor, I think there's a subtle difference between deleting text and
striking it.

If the text is deleted, then it should be removed completely from the file.
You won't know that it was ever in the file.

But with strikethrough, I'm letting the reader know that the text has
changed: I'm showing what the original text was (indicated as crossed out
with the strikethrough) and that there is either new text to replace it or
that nothing will replace it.

Strikethrough is also used in creative writing to indicate a change in
thought or message, usually in a humorous way.

I don't think the <del> tag adequately conveys the subtleties of the
message.

-Bevi Chagnon
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