- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 16:42:05 -0500
- To: elm@arbortext.com
- Cc: fahrner@pobox.com, cpj1@winternet.com, papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, reddik@thegroup.net, www-style@w3.org
From: "Eve L. Maler" <elm@arbortext.com> | | I've always been surprised that HTML has only one overloaded PRE | element for both code listings and "real text." Many DTDs I've | worked with have an escape-hatch element that retains all spaces | and line breaks on output, but keeps the text in proportional font. | It's even often documented facetiously as "the 'poetry' element." | | If a "correct way to format poetry" is needed, what about something | like a class attribute value on PRE to indicate just how preformatted | the text is? --- I agree - it would be nice to have separate control of pre-indentation, font choice, and fill/no-fill. scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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