More questions on tags

Brian Kelly (ECL6BK@lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk)
Fri, 29 Apr 1994 15:11:22 GMT


How do the line break tags (<BR> and <L>) fit in with the pararagraph
container? I can see authors using these tags to control the appearance
of their document using their favourite browser, but losing the
structure of the document.

To give a specific example consider a document containing a list of
people in an orgnisation

Staff List

Prime Minister

John Smith

Ministers

Douglas Hurd

Kenneth Baker

... The author on seeing this rendered as: Prime Minister John Major Ministers Douglas Hurd Henneth Baker may be tempted to write: Staff List

Prime Minister

John Smith

Ministers

Douglas Hurd

Kenneth Baker
... or Staff List

Prime Minister

John Smith

Ministers

Douglas Hurd
Kenneth Baker
... These may look nicer, but the definition of the paragraph is lost. Any comments? Brian Kelly Brian Kelly Computing Service University of Leeds Leeds West Yorkshire Phone: (0532) 335830 LS2 9JT Email: B.Kelly@Leeds.ac.uk My URL