> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 23:45:16 -0400 (EDT)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Sankey)

> In HTML, the brackets < and > are reserved to delimit HTML codes, and
> must be represented by &lt; and &gt; when used in text. The
> conversion system from texinfo appears to believe that they don't
> have to be changed inside <pre> </pre> blocks. They do.

AFAIK, this behaviour depends on the browser. Some years ago any sort
of HTML had been ignored just after "<pre>" up to the next *line*
beginning with just "</pre>". The data immediately following "<pre>"
was the first line of the "pre"-formatted output.

<pre>   <pre> may be used for
   preformatted output.
</pre>

resulted in
   <pre> may be used for
   preformatted output.


-- Werner

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