Re: [xml2rfc-dev] RFC 7991 issue #37: Schema Issue, RFC 7991, In Section 2.12, <br>

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 10/3/2018 11:25 AM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> ...
>> See Julian's response in the thread above. The WG decided
> 
> Umm?  Which WG? Could you point at the discussion?

"Design Team".

>> that it
>> didn't like <br> because it causes the author to expect things that
>> might not be true in all renderers, such as in the middle of section
>> headings, as a run of <br><br>, and so on. However, there were many
>> use cases for line breaks within a cell in a table because of the
>> limitations on the horizontal space in cells.
> 
> I don't see this.  I think that if there are considerations which makes
> <br> useful in for instance a 30-character width context which don't
> apply in a 69-character width context or a flowing-text context on a
> narrow screen, they need to be laid out explicitly.

How did you arrive at 30?

Table cells can get very narrow, like just a few characters, and in that 
case it can be desirable to control line breaks.

FWIW, HTML5 *allows* <br> in many places, but says clearly that it's 
only to be used when the line break has semantic meaning, such as in a poem.

Best regards, Julian