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Postings from October 1999
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com> wrote > They do make a difference when you have verbatim text that > contains a line with nothing but whitespace. They make the > entire thing one block of verbatim text rather than two. That's a tad subtle for me. Sure, internally they'll be handled differently. But since it's *verbatim*, what comes out of the processing should be identical. Except for the trailing spaces on the blank line, of course. But who notices them? :-) Mike Guy