Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx text formatting queries

[Philip Webb]

980402 Jacob Poon wrote: 
> When a block of unindented, left justified text is displayed,
> Lynx puts  3  spaces before each line, unless it is enclosed
> by the heading tags (eg:  <h1>..</h1> ).
> I have tested both Netscape and Mosaic,
> and they both put unindented, left justified, non-heading texts
> to first column for graphical and text versions.
> I don't think those spaces should be added at the first place,
> since they make the document longer and doesn't improve visibility. 
 
i've long agreed with this, without ever getting round to complaining:
surely, there needs to be a justification for making documents occupy
a larger number of screens; i don't find it any easier to read.

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