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1. Spaces, such as U+0020 and U+00A0, which are are "kept" (e.g.
adjacent spaces are not collapsed).
2. Horizontal Tabs are indicated by the HT character, U+0009. Tab
stops shall be assumed every 8 columns, starting at the first. (This
provision is primarily to facilitate conversion of ASCII and 8-bit
text to Unicode. Alternatively, it would be OK to force all
horizontal alignment to be accomplished by spaces.)
3. Line breaks are indicated by Line Separator, U+2028. Preformatted
text must break lines at column 79 or less to avoid unwanted
reformatting. Column numbers are 1-based, relative to the left or
right margin, according to the previaling directionality, with
single-width characters as the counting unit. A line break is
required at the end of the final line if it is to be considered a
line. (This is to allow append operations to work in the expected
fashion.)
4. Paragraph breaks are indicated by two successive Line Separators
or by Paragraph Separator, U+2029.
5. Hard page breaks are indicated by FF, U+000C.
Change (4) to:
4. Paragraph breaks are indicated by Paragraph Separator, U+2029.
Add to (3):
A blank line is indicated by two successive Line Separators.
Two blank lines are indicated by three of them, etc.
This is to allow paragraphs like this one, which contain embedded
"displays" set off by blank lines that are NOT paragraph separators.
- Frank
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