"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-02-04 03:14 -0500:
> Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Do you see any disadvantage? Can you check your man page corpus > > whether authors ever use a combination of .IP/.LP/.PP/.P/.HP just for > > the purpose of getting two empty lines? > > I have *never*, in fact, seen this done. If it were to happen, the doclifter > translation would fail to validate because it would genrate an empty > <para></para> tag pair, which would then fail validation -- <para> is > required to have content. <para></para> is valid. It's not required to have content. A <para></para> instance won't generate validation errors. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/