Re: Crowd Source Request: Examples of pre in pages you use.

Hi Everyone
There appears to be one category of literature that requires fixed layout
for meaning. That is writing where the layout of the letters is part of the
art.

Most poetry falls outside of this category. It can keep its cuplet,
quatrian or sonnet format can be preserved at low enlargement and wrapped
at higher levels.

I actually think of lines differently when they wrap. I think of them as a
line-groups. It is very much like my IDE that wrap a line but keeps the
same line number for the entire group of text.

Conclusion: In literature, pre is only necessary when text layout is part
of the visual art.

Best Wayne

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:07 AM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> >  when line-wrapping introduces additional line-breaks, *THEN* it
> impacts the formatted meaning,
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> I don’t think it is that binary, there are mitigations, like there are
> with code samples.
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> Starting with your Haiku example, if you assume that this symbol
> represented a linebreak: §
> (I can’t see how to insert a line break symbol, just pretend!)
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> The summer river: §
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> although there is a
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>   bridge, my horse §
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> goes through the
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>   water.  §
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> (The email version of this has light grey shading on the top & bottom
> sentences, that will be lost for some email clients and in the archive.)
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> I’m not saying that should be the default view, but it is a technique that
> could be used to maintain the meaning created by the formatting.
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> There is a continuum here:
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>    - Most text shouldn’t use a pre or have a fixed-width (i.e. standard
>    text that reflows now).
>    - For some types of text it makes sense to have in a pre, but it
>    should wrap fairly easily.
>    - For some types of text it makes sense to have in a pre, but it could
>    wrap with great difficulty.
>    - Some text could only work in a fixed-format (definitely essential).
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> Let’s start with sufficient techniques at the top-end of that, and work
> down until it gets too difficult to be practical.
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> It was (and still is) a good idea to gather some examples though, the more
> the better.
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> -Alastair
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