Re: Pref - character for quoted text

[J.B. Moreno]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
   Daniel Glazman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

-snip inserting something on every line-
> This is not so easy to do, in fact. When you insert generated content
> before or after the contents of the element, you only have to recompute
> once the block-level box and inlines boxes for the element. Even in case
> of reflow due to viewport resizing.
> 
> If every line can have generated content, it can be a long loop
> because each content generation changes all the inline boxes after
> it.
> 
> I don't say it is impossible, just not totally trivial.

I realize it isn't totally trivial -- but it is perhaps the #1
request/complaint about format=flowed that I've seen.  People love the
idea, but not everyone likes the bars.

And it'd have uses outside of quoting.

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J.B. Moreno