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

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sat, 05 October 2019 04:36 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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Hi Julian,
On 05-Oct-19 17:08, Julian Reschke wrote:
...> The point of the xml2rfc vocabulary is to markup things based on their
> semantics, not based on a certain desired plain text output.

Fair enough; if we want to illustrate a point with a plain text example, then <artwork> seems appropriate. But I think we are talking about something else: cases where we *want* the text to stop here
and continue on the next line, whatever output format (including HTML) we are using.
 
> If we can't get acceptable *HTML* output, let's consider the use case
> and come up with a proper solution (which might be <br/>).

It applies to PDF etc too.

<snip>

> Why do these need to be on separate lines? (I don't understand the
> context yet...)

Ah, but a tool designer doesn't *need* to understand the context. If the author *wants* a line break, that's all we need to know.

> (And yes, there was ample time to have this dicussion; RFC 7991 finished
> three years ago).

I'm a bit confused: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7991#section-2.12

Regards
    Brian