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Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Mon, 17 July 2023 07:59 UTC

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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:58:35 +1000
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, "Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [Rfc-markdown] [rfc-i] [Tools-discuss] Tool to convert TXT to RFCXML
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On Mon, Jul 17, 2023, at 16:47, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> * add <nobr or similar to RFCXML, so we don’t have to play the 
> character substitution games.

This.  The way HTML does it is with CSS directives[1].  There is a lot of control over this through CSS, though for annoying reasons wrapping is still not fully specified.

For our purposes, it seems like a simple <nobr>...</nobr> element would be fine.  (Which leads me to ponder a new kramdown extension whereby words could be automatically wrapped in various span-level elements to ensure consistent styling for keywords...)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space in particular.

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