Re: SPaces and Tabs in HTML documents

Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>

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Date: 	Mon, 14 Jun 1993 14:37:31 PDT
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Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 14-Jun-93 Re: SPaces and Tabs in HTML..
Kevin Altis@scic.intel.c (1842)

> I believe the proper thing to do is to have a way of specifying horizontal
> whitespace as well as settings for tabs specified in units (inches,
> centimeters, and points at a minimum). Support for right justification is
> important, especially to support text that reads right to left such as
> arabic, hebrew and kanji. Full justification would be nice, but is
> complicated. The ability for an author to specify a recommended style sheet
> per document, defining typefaces, point sizes, tab settings, etc. would be
> beneficial.

You must be thinking of some other markup format.  HTML+ should not
support *any* of this.  It's supposed to support *generic*, *meaningful*
markup, not procedural typographic junk.

Bill