On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 09:17:48AM -0700, Frank da Cruz wrote:
> 90 seconds later...
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
could one not use C0 or C1 characters for these, so that the conventions
could equally apply to say 8859 character sets?
3) could be something like one out of 3:
1. CR
2. LF
3. CR LF
4) could we use something like one of the C0 characers for that?
Keld
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