- From: Chris Maden <crism@oreilly.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:45:30 -0500 (EST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
[Bruce Bailey] > If someone wants a particular html document in ascii, I would argue > that the burden falls to him to convert it himself. It's not hard: lynx -dump on any UNIX or DOS box with Lynx installed; there are services on the 'net that will do this. There even used to be e-mail Web proxies; are any of them still around? > Another work around is to use line feeds (^L) as soft returns and > carriage returns (^M) as the end of paragraph marks, but this is not > very common. I should say not: ^L is a page break, not a line feed. That would be a pretty odd-looking document. I assume you meant ^J, but the problem with that proposal is that both ^J and ^M are in use: UNIX uses line feeds (^J) at the end of every line; Macintosh uses carriage returns (^M), and DOS/Windows uses CRLF (^M^J). Adopting any other use for these extremely characters would cause a fair bit of chaos. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>
Received on Thursday, 10 December 1998 18:46:46 UTC