<HR> spacing

Stephen R. Laniel (slaniel@together.net)
Fri, 19 Jul 1996 21:18:21 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 21:18:21 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199607200118.VAA09799@sequoia.together.net>
From: "Stephen R. Laniel" <slaniel@together.net>
Subject: <HR> spacing
To: www-html@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199607191904.PAA27706@www19.w3.org>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Often while designing HTML pages, it's necessary to place one <HR> below another.  I found this necessary, for instance, while converting an old _Harvard Law Review_ article to HTML.  To keep the HTML version as close to the printed version as possible, I needed to place one horizontal line below the other.  However, just typing

<HR>
<HR>

produced two lines whose spacing looked very ugly.

Is there any way to control the spacing between <HR>s?  If not, I'd like to see something like:

<SPACING=x>
<HR>
<HR>
</SPACING>

One could put regular text between the <SPACING> tags.  One could place <SPACING> immediately after <BODY>, and </SPACING> immediately before </BODY>, in this way defining paragraph spacing for the entire document.

Is this idea feasible?  Thanks.

 --Steve

Stephen R. Laniel                  |    "I was born not knowing and
Carnegie Mellon University         |     have only had a little time to
laniel+@andrew.cmu.edu             |     change that here and there."
www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/laniel     |               --Richard Feynman


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2

iQEVAwUBMfAzPCawOej0JTJVAQFnPwf+KFZXHaHWvw0LBZTyhtY1lCYE5X0/dxw9
DvzXVLpMxa6vHqlfA+RWr5MVkNFBglGS1xTTdPtJH2rPfUxb7AUgP7rvKxiQOSZH
lNuclew+vVGQE/HJF4nPbwar1Ubd5Tt/a/a2ArGcYWbvC+aIOcTFVrXynFBgLQ6O
OFyyB2PlZHabS5e7jZxl0AnAFf1LkZCoccZZoQ4hTURnIFA5C/QeComJiWJkJkZp
xQyjykfkvaJhFeZ7e9X6w5GzbOqqKB/gkqsrp7txa4ybOotIiKmFMpKx6bmAoq9P
p19lZgoY7+s5LyVPctSscWfjdsr0+dIuGO1feUgRGq9xM4d8GNOC9Q==
=N84G
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----