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- PRE was deigned to address a very specific problem:
- putting in information which had been PREformatted
- in all kinds of ways (tables, diagrams included) using
- plain ASCII text, in the assumption of fixed-width
- characters.
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- PRE MUST always be displayed using fixed width characters:
- indeed, even when <B>old has been turned on, if a bold
- font can't be found with the same pitch, then bold should
- not be shown. [Recent usergripe that his formatting was
- all off becuase he used bold ina PRE].
-
- Poetry is somethingdifferent altogether. It is less
- obvious that you ned to have significant newlines, especially
- as lines in powetry can wrap. I would suggest for HTML+
- an element for poetry and elements for verses, with
- lines being paragraphs within the verse, for example.
- But mark it up.
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- Tim
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