RE: Handling newline

Subject: RE: Handling newline
From: "Frank A. Christoph" <christo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:29:17 +0900
I wrote:
> Is there anything in the standard which says that a newline
> appearing in the
> text of a paragraph must be rendered as a space or a line break when
> input-whitespace-treatment: is not 'ignore? The reason I ask is that for
> Japanese text it is quite natural to do so.

I should clarify. I meant that it is natural to ignore newlines in Japanese,
since Japanese text does not usually include spaces but one typically uses
carriage return to avoid putting an entire paragraph on the same line.

> Or is this something that ought
> to be handled somehow from the SGML declaration? (If so, how?)

--FC


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