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Message of Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:43:21 CDT from LISTSERV
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On Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:43:21 CDT Chris Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
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>As you can see from my assumption above (since proven incorrect), I had
>assumed that the & was based on the old IBM Script language.
But it is! And just what *exactly* do you think HTML is based on? What do
you think people used at CERN for text processing when the WWW was
designed?
>But the rest of the formatting apparently *is* based on the old
>IBM script (ie. the ".fo off, .eb"). Do we really need the
>*formatting* stuff? I don't think so.
How are you going to conditionally include text without .BB/.EB? How can
you make the message fit within a certain number of columns in the face
of substitution of unknown length unless you do text flow? How are you
going to be able to put a table where you don't want text formatting
unless you have a way to do this? To make a long story short, if it isn't
needed then why does HTML support it and have it turned on by default,
just like LISTSERV?
Eric
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