[DEMUG] HTML question

[Dick Atlee]

If there's anyone out there who knows how to work with HTML directly (as 
opposed to through a graphical development environment), I'd appreciate 
very much an answer to an HTML question on fonts/styles.

I've done a lot of HTML development, but only via the basics in code. At 
this point I find I'm trying to expand my basic HTML working knowledge, 
which has worked for me for many years, to include style sheets, so I 
can get away from using the <font> tag.

The problem is, in my O'Reilly's reference I haven't been able to find 
any freestanding font change technique that will allow a style class to 
be specified "midsentence", so to speak.  It appears it can only be done 
  in the context of tags like <p> or <td>.  If you want to specify a 
change in font midline or between two adjacent lines, you're apparently 
stuck, because you'd have to use a new <p> tag to specify the new class, 
which would force a blank line to appear at that point.

If anyone have any insights into this, I'd appreciate it.  Thanks.

Dick