On Tuesday, 2 November 1999, Werner Icking writes:
> > 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.

<xmp> still does

Jan.

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