Re: Interpretation of RE

David - Morris (dwm@shell.portal.com)
Tue, 11 Apr 95 01:55:58 EDT

On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, Arthur van Hoff wrote:

> element. If that is true, what is the correct interpretation of RE
> iside a PRE content? For example:
>
> <pre>
> This is <b>
> bold
> </b> text.
> </pre>
>
> Should this be interpreted as:
>
> <pre>
> This is <b>bold</b> text.
> </pre>

No, that is not correct. <pre> means preformatted ... that is use a
fixed pitch font and break the lines where the user did.
Section 10.2 of the March 29 HTML 2 draft is quite clear. You example
should show as:

This is
BOLD
text.

Dave Morris