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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:44:47 BST, "M.J.T. Guy" wrote: >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? :-) One might write a pod2foo thing that chooses to notice them. A case in point is Tom's ppt. The difference is very visual, and doing the wrong thing looks very ugly (two differently sized boxes instead of one). Sarathy gsar@activestate.comThread Previous | Thread Next