jon said:
Well, since I sort of initiated this sub-thread
um, you mean since you _hijacked_ the thread... just had to talk about your shiny markup, didn't you? what a debilitating distraction... the need to retain line-breaks has nothing to do with markup. (and your example, which shows the absurd lengths to which a markup mentality will drive a person, was very illuminating, as is all the technoid jargon-jabbering in this "sub-thread".) p.g. introduces its own linebreaks into its plain-ascii e-texts, all without ever entering the markup arena. and i put in my own line-breaks, right here in these posts to this listserve, again without using any markup at all, just the return key. i'll bring this thread back to relevance starting tomorrow... -bowerbird