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Re: [Rfc-markdown] [Tools-discuss] Tool to convert TXT to RFCXML

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 17 July 2023 14:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rfc-markdown] [Tools-discuss] Tool to convert TXT to RFCXML
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On 17. Jul 2023, at 16:17, Jean Mahoney <jmahoney@amsl.com> wrote:
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> We prefer to limit the use of entities to control line breaks, such as non-breaking space, non-breaking hyphen, word joiner, and zero-width space, and use them only if the line breaks are really bad (in tables with many columns, for instance).

You cannot generally know that, as the reader may be varying the width of the HTML display window.

So it has to be blanket support, not individual items that happen to be visible in a specific window configuration.

Grüße, Carsten

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