Jos Groot Lipman <donts...@home.nl> wrote:

>I also found out about this
>http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/wiki_rules 
>
>"The <verbatim> tag works like <pre> with the addition that it also
>disables
>all wiki and HTML markup through the matching </verbatim>."
>
>But why this special tag? Is this not something the <pre> should do
>under
>all circumstances? When would you ever want wiki or HTML markup inside
>a
><pre>? That contradicts the primary reason of existance for the <pre>
>tag.

No, it doesn't. The pre tag preseves layout, but not other formatting. It's 
valid and common to change fonts inside of a pre tag. And I'm anal enough about 
my html to run an editor that does on-the-fly validation.
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