- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 22:53:05 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Are you saying that you are just as likely to see the following construct: > tempor tempus.<br /> > <br /> Yes. Although the current fashion is to have only one br, and not even indent the first line to compensate! > I would be very surprised to hear that. In English composition, one of the > first things people learn is how to write using paragraphs. Only sentences People then learn to type using double newlines, and forget any structuring they learnt in school. You will find this in typical MS Word documents. Word has style sheets that can incert extra gaps between paragraphs, and actually work better without blank lines, but nearly everyone types two newlines. It's also quite common to newline over page boundaries, in spite of hard page break codes, and the ability to inhibit unwanted page breaks. Schools are probably particularly bad, as they don't seem to associate the curriculum requirement to create simple web pages with the requirement to teach good grammar, and their teachers learn sloppy presentational hackery and teach it to the children.
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