- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:01:38 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
I wrote:
> It may, however, lead to some unfortunate line breaks when the
> "leader" is white space. Instead of this:
>
> |For a moment, nothing happend. |
> |Then, after a second or so, |
> |nothing continued to happen. |
> | Douglas Adams|
>
> one would get this:
>
> |For a moment, nothing happend. |
> |Then, after a second or so, |
> |nothing continued to |
> |happen. Douglas Adams|
>
> We could make an exception for white-space-only leaders. That would
> probabbly be what most authors would want. Hmm.
Answering myself, there is probably a better switch to use: In the
example above, the leader is placed before the <cite>Douglas
Adams</cite> element (as opposed to after the quote itself). So, we
could probably find a way to say that post-leaders can cause line
breaks, while pre-leaders can't.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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