On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Freelance Traveller <
edi...@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:

THE HTML
>
> <DL>
> <DT>John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt</DT>
> <DD>His name is my name, too. Whenever we go out, we can hear the people
> shout "Hooray for John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt".</DD>
> </DL>
>
> DESIRED RENDERING
>
> Stuff bracketed with * should be bold, stuff in [] is generated content.
>
> CASE 1: display: run-in SUPPORTED
>
> *John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt[:]* His name is my name, too. Whenever
> we go out, we can hear the people shout "Hooray for John Jacob
> Jingleheimer Schmidt".
>

[...]

What's not clear to
> me is (a) how to handle Case 1, specifically the "undenting" of the left
> margin (most of the rest I can work out),


I'm probably misunderstanding the question, but based on your pseudo-code
you could accomplish this with CSS 2.1 using display: inline:

Example: http://codepen.io/jreece/pen/yznEw


-- 
Jon Reece
jon.re...@gmail.com
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