On Thursday 2006-07-06 10:18 +1200, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
> > Well I'm not expert about that but I just had a look in the CSS2 norm,
> > and you can find this about using 'white-space: pre' :
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/text.html#white-space-prop
> >     [...] Lines are only broken at newlines in the source, or at
> > occurrences of "\A" in generated content.
> > 
> > So it seems the current implementation is correct.
> 
> That's a good point, although I don't know if the person who wrote that
> was thinking about CJK at the time.

I suspect he was not.

However, I also think that the 'white-space' property should apply to
more than just white space in CJK languages.  I suspect the author of
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/ was, but that draft
probably needs more review before it's really ready for implementation.

-David

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L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
           Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation

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