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

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 04 October 2019 19:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc] [xml2rfc-dev] <br> is back, was: New xml2rfc release: v2.32.0
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On 05-Oct-19 04:34, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
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> I'm strongly for having an explicit <br/> element.

I concur. My conclusion from 30+ years of using various markup languages is
that explicit line breaks are needed, even if they offend some ideal vision
of markup theory. Sometimes there is simply no alternative.

   Brian