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Re: Monospaced font

From: Hakon Lie <Hakon.Lie@sophia.inria.fr>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:53:21 +0100
Message-Id: <199512032353.AAA01526@www4.inria.fr>
To: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr>
Cc: www-style@w3.org 
Bert,

 > As Glenn says, there should be a `verbatim' property in CSS1. There
 > will be; the only reason that it isn't there yet is that it would be
 > the first boolean property in CSS. But if we can't think of a useful
 > generalization soon it will be `preformatted: yes/no'.

How about:

  white-space

  Value: pre | normal
  Initial value: normal
  Example: PRE { white-space: pre }

Thus, we will be open for other sets of space/tab/newline rules that
may come up.

-h&kon

Hakon W Lie, W3C/INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
http://www.w3.org/People/howcome  howcome@w3.org
Received on Sunday, 3 December 1995 18:53:26 GMT

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