Not that i can't see other places where WORD could be useful -- but
i'm pretty sure the above examples don't cause the problem you're
talking about.
<big>S</big>ee what I can do!
breaks up into five words:
<big>S</big>ee
what
I
can
do!
based on the whitespace, and is rendered that way. This kind of breaking
used to occur especially often with things like
Please have a look at <a href="blah.html">some more verbiage</a>.
where the period off the end would be put on a new line (even though
verbiage</a>.
should be a single word). I think this was interpreted as a bug and
later fixed, in Mosaic. My understanding of the whitespace issue is that
whitespace *after a start tag* or *before an end tag* like
<p> some-space-preceded-this
is not significant, while whitespace like
<strong>emphasized</strong> nextword
and
<strong>emphasized</strong> <code>some-code-here</code>
remains significant as a word break, because it falls either *just
outside a tag* or *between two words*. So
<code>/foobar/<var>user</var></code>
is one word, and while it is the same as
<code>/foobar/<var> user</var></code>
, it is quite different from the two words
<code>/foobar/ <var>user</var></code>
The recent discussion on whitespace interpretation confirms half of this
belief; could someone please confirm whether this entire interpretation
is correct?
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