On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:44:16 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
>The Multics developers chose not to use CR because that would have prevented
>overprinting.
>
>If you use RS to separate lines then you can't use it to separate groups of
>lines. There's no equivalent to
>
> foo <CRLF> bar <CRLF> baz <RS> Tom <CRLF> Dick <CRLF> Harry
>
How about, then:
foo <RS> bar <RS> baz <GS> Tom <RS> Dick <RS> Harry
.... choosing arbitrarily among:
ASCII code 28 = FS ( File separator )
ASCII code 29 = GS ( Group separator )
ASCII code 30 = RS ( Record separator )
ASCII code 31 = US ( Unit separator )
... but that's venturing into markup language issues. How many nesting
levels should be supported? "There are only three nice numbers:
zero, one, and 'as many as you like'." (Source obscure)
-- gil
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