- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:25:43 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 08:16 PM 12/07/97 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >At 10:11p -0400 07/12/97, Liam Quinn wrote: > > At 06:59 PM 12/07/97 -0700, David Perrell wrote: > > >Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet wrote: > > >> 2. There is definite statement on being collapsing or > > >not. > > > > > >A statement there should definitely be, and it should definitely be > > >'not'. > > > > Why? > >At the risk of repeating what I probably already said sometime last year, >a non-breaking space is not a space -- it just *looks* like one. In the >Courier font (or a similar typewriter-mimicking font), the number "1" >looks exactly like the lowercase "l". But it's a different character code >and therefore a different character: nbspace is not space. > >Syllogism: > >Major premise: Spaces collapse. >Minor premise: NBspace is not a space. (It's just rendered to look like one.) > Conclusion: Ergo, NBspaces do not collapse. Major premise: Spaces collapse. Minor premise: Newline is not a space. (It's just rendered to look like one.) Conclusion: Ergo, newlines do not collapse. I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here. I've seen good arguments for and against collapsing non-breaking spaces, and I just thought that David shouldn't be let off without giving an argument. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM8hKtg/JhtXygIx1AQFWswL/XqKE5wE7zLltiy4P4Q4aKmWroRiVWKbX YPZ5hAEOhOvt0BzvuUW6xAtGOGkdRG/IZWB/uuWfntkvOd2G9iwEaTTpXliSRx7D 01GYLN75qcuAuci8E7zU0aYqVxUOLR8D =JUYw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Liam Quinn =============== http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/ =============== Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/ ====== PGP Key at http://www.htmlhelp.com/%7Eliam/pgp.html =====
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