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The contrived nature of Christoph's example
The contrived nature of Christoph's example argues against converting newlines to <br> tags. The important thing about <br> markup is that it's //rare.// There are a few good uses, for example setting of verse, but many of the uses in practice would be better marked up as, say, a bulletless list.
In a 1Mpage fragment of the English wikipedia xml dump (3GB uncompressed data), there are 400k instances of the <br> tag. Of those, about half are inside tables. Another large fraction seem to be for doing relatively sophisticated layout-like things, such as positioning captions for images.
Therefore: very unsophisticated users don't //need// to know what the linebreak markup is. It's vastly less important than meat-and-potatoes markup like links and emphasis. In the other direction, stray newlines easily find their way into text files, and it's easy to predict that a large number of these will be unwanted. And for specific tasks like prose, it's easy to view source and copy.
-- RaphLevien, 2007-01-13
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62 08-Feb-2007 18:29 49.696 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last No headings and rules in lists
61 08-Feb-2007 18:07 49.284 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last how do we do it in other contexts?
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