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M J T Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes: > 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? :-) Well, not necessarily. If it's all one verbatim paragraph, you're guaranteed that that line with nothing but whitespace will come out the other end as a single line. If it's two verbatim paragraphs, the paragraph separation is left up to the translator and the translator is free under the semantics of POD to turn it into a horizontal bar of smiley faces. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>Thread Previous | Thread Next