[Doc-SIG] Documentation markup & processing / PEPs

[Peter Funk]

Hi,

David:
> > MS IE 5.0 on MacOS 8.6 reduced all contiguous whitespace within TT tags to a
> > single spaces. Ditto for Netscape Communicator 4.7. Is there another inline
> > HTML tag which *preserves* runs of whitespace?
 
Guido van Rossum:
> I think this is how HTML is specified, for better or for worse.  Most
> tools that require preservation of whitespace generate   if there
> are multiple spaces, although it's not always clear to me if it's
> better to generate "  " or "  ".

May be I've missed the point, but was wrong with the <PRE> tag?  For example:

<dl><dd><pre class="verbatim">
def run(server_class=BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer,
        handler_class=BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    server_address = ('', 8000)
    httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
    httpd.serve_forever()
</pre></dl>

(Cut'n'paste from the Python library reference as displayed by KDE KFM)
If a Browser (MS IE 5.0) would display this, it is definitely broken.

Regards, Peter
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