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- > Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 21:54:37 -1000
- > From: Rik Harris <rik@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au>
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- > I think the <PRE> tag is a great idea, too. The problem with not
- > having newlines significant is that it makes it difficult to do
- > indenting, etc. One of the reasons the <PRE> tag is nice is that you
- > can take text (eg, manual entries) and not worry about formatting:
- >
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- > eg
- >
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- > OPTIONS
- >
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- > -b this option performs the blah command. And if this line is
- > reasonably long, I can demonstrate what I'm talking about.
- >
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- > -f this option performs the foo command. Another annoying prob-
- > lem is hyphenation.
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- I was sugesting that you should format the above like
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- OPTIONS<p>
- <p>
- -b this option performs the blah command. And if this line is<p>
- reasonably long, I can demonstrate what I'm talking about.<p>
- <p>
-
- -f this option performs the foo command. Another annoying prob-<p>
- lem is hyphenation.<p>
-
- That is, you explicitly put in the line end, but all white space is significant
- on the line.. It means that lines like
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- See also csh, cc, blah, fred and junk.
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- which would have to be a SINGLE LINE
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- See also <a name=csh href=csh.html>csh</a>, <a name=cc href=cc.html>cc</a>, <a
- name=blah2 href=http://sdf.adf.uasdf.edu/fred/doc/junk/blah.html>blah</a>, <a
- name=fred href=fred.html>fred</a> and <a name=junk href=junk.html>csh</a>.
-
- instead could out as for example
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- See also
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- <a name=csh href=csh.html>csh</a>,
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- <a name=cc href=cc.html>cc</a>,
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- <a name=blah2 href=http://sdf.adf.uasdf.edu/fred/doc/junk/blah.html>blah</a>,
- <a name=fred href=fred.html>fred</a> and <a name=junk href=junk.html>csh</a>.
- <p>
-
- which is mailable. If you look atthe NJIT manual pages HTML, there is a
- mixture of significant line feeds and explicit <p> elements for blank lines:
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- OPTIONS
- <p>
- -b this option performs the blah command. And if this line is
- reasonably long, I can demonstrate what I'm talking about.
- <p>
-
- -f this option performs the foo command. Another annoying prob-
- lem is hyphenation.
- <p>
-
- I propose we settle for one or the other. I wonder whether there is
- anything in SGML to suggest which.
-
- Tim
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