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Re: Comments about "Multiple spaces converted into one"

From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:37:13 +0200
To: Greg Noel <GregNoel@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr, www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <200609261037.13540.vatton@inrialpes.fr>

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 22:20, Greg Noel wrote:

> There are some people who do not like extra width between paragraphs  
> (although I do not understand it myself, since it makes text easier  
> to read), so this behavior should be optional.  The issue here is  
> whether the option should default to on or off.  I think it should  
> default to "on" for several reasons: the behavior is unchanged if  
> someone only types one space between sentences and it's usually  
> easier to discover how to turn off an option than turn one on.  
> However, that's only my preference and there's a case that can be  
> made for backward compatibility.

Amaya will provide a "Keep multiple spaces" option, but this option is set to 
off by default for backward compatibility.

Regards
-- 
     Irène.
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