Re: White space

by Lewis Overton <lewy_o(at)yahoo.com>

Date:	Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:15:21 -0900
To:	hwg-gutenberg(at)mail.hwg.org
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At 09:44 PM 3/16/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I have played around with using  non-breaking space and non breaking CR, I
>don't know if we have them in our XML.  In HTML the easiest way to generate
>them is to open the poem in Word, change spaces to non-breaking spaces and
>save as HTML. Same with non breaking line breaks. Then at least the HTML
>looks like the poem and saves the white space. I think the tags that are
>generated are <nbsp> or something like that. And single spacing is
>retained.

I have been marking up the poems of Robert Service. After much struggle 
with myself, I abandoned XML in favor XHTML, written in such a manner as to 
simplify later conversion to XML. For books, XML seems to work fine, but 
for poetry, where presentation is part of the structure, I just couldn't 
bring to discard information that is likely to be needed in a later version.

When I get the XHTML all done, I will try again to convert to XML.
Lewis Overton, lewy(at)iname.com

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