On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 01:26:13 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote: | Dear fellow PG volunteers, | | I know that discussing issues of markup in PG files | is a pointless argument that rarely goes anywhere. | Still, I must ask if is it generally acceptable to | most PG volunteers to have HTML files in the collection | with massive amounts of redundant white space in them? | | By this point in time, there are megabytes of storage | space in the PG archive which consist of only spaces | because of much indentation in html files. | | Take a look at the html source of the recently released | Edward Lear "A Book of Nonsense" to see an example a little | more extreme than most I've seen: | | http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13646 Just had a look at it and IMO it appears to be *very* well done. The indentation is only *two* spaces per level, whereas some would use *eight* spaces per level. As anyone who has done hand programming of html or any computer language, knows, the indenting and other white space in the code is *absolutely* essential for understanding the code, especially after a year or two, when you have forgotten everything about it. The white space is even more essential when modifieing other peoples code. -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> Don't eat cousin Banana she shares 50% of your genes. Do not kill cousin House Mouse, it is not his fault he is doubly incontinent. Flies need your help. Killing cousin salmonella with bleach is murder, he is as much alive as you are. ;-)