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

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 18.10.2019 18:05, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>
> On 2019-10-18 17:49, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> On Oct 18, 2019, at 16:54, Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]> 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.
>
> I agree with this.  So again, I propose to permit <br> as a child element
> of these elements, where I think the semantics of a <br> would be well-
> defined:
>
>     blockquote
>     dd
>     dt
>     em
>     li
>     name
>     strong
>     t
>     td
>     th
>     title
>     tt
>
> Should <sub> and <sup> be in that list?  If we compare with the places where
> for instance <bcp14> is permitted, the answer would be 'yes'; but I'm not
> sure it's the right thing to do.
> ...

For <title>, I will continue to ask about the use case (line break
opportunity vs required line break vs title & subtitle), as this affects
what would happen if it occurs in a <reference>, or if there's an <xref>
with format="title".

Best regards, Julian