Re: Displaying multiple lines in WebVTT

On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, David Singer wrote:
> 
> We're not writing paragraphs, such as in HTML, where inserting line 
> breaks in the source is sometimes desirable to make the source readable, 
> and then they need converting to whitespace. Cues need to be 'short'.

I agree. I really don't see a problem with newlines being newlines. 
In fact one of the main reasons we picked SRT as a format was that it was 
one of the few formats to not make the mistake of having newlines use some 
sort of explicit syntax.

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Received on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 21:28:02 UTC