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Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc-dev] [xml2rfc] <br> is back, was: New xml2rfc release: v2.32.0

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 18 October 2019 15:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc-dev] [xml2rfc] <br> is back, was: New xml2rfc release: v2.32.0
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On Oct 18, 2019, at 16:54, Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd be more than happy to move to <br/> if we could make that useful for
> the RPC.
> 
> I think most people who voiced an viewpoint on that was for making it
> generally available, but when I proposed how to do that, it seemed to
> run into opposition again.

There were some questions about line-breaking in titles in general (whether <br/> or U+2028).

I think that there is wide consensus about using <br/> in favor of U+2028.

The fact that unlike the former, the latter is not visible in the schemas makes U+2028 a great way to cheat around the consensus.
We should not do that.

As in the question about restricting Unicode character sets, I believe that — as long as the vocabulary has a meaning — the schema (mechanism) is not the place to make restrictions based on beauty, style etc. (policy).  So I would prefer to have <br/> in the places in the schema where it has well-defined semantics.  We can figure out later whether this is always, only exceptionally, or never good style.

Grüße, Carsten

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