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On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 12:40, Elliotte Harold wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>Ken Roberts wrote:
> What something like this should do is convert an infinite amount of
> whitespace in a single instance into a single space.
The effects of this are quite negative in many, many cases. For instance
consider a DocBook programlisting element or an XHTML pre element that
contains a carefully formatted Python program. Or consider <b>some</b>
<i>text</i> <em>like</em> <b>this</b>. That algorithm loses the spaces
between words. If there's white space mixed in with text content, it's
safer to just leave it alone.</I></FONT></PRE>
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I thought that was why this would be an option rather than default behavior? If you might be reading such a thing then this property would not be set, but if you have no such constraints and want dense output it would be a desirable feature.<BR>
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