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[EUOL]

So...can you format html to display things like a regular document?  Ie, can you make it automatically indent the first line of a paragraph?  And can you make it double-space?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

use the <pre> tag. Though that's not friendly to resizing displays. I believe there's a style sheet way to do it, but I'm too lazy to look it up, and someone geekier than me will get to it first anyway.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Yes, you can do all those things by using CSS (not with <pre>). It's a bit complicated, especially if you know nothing about CSS already.

[JP Dogberry]

Complex, but extremely powerful. Which is why I should learn to do it one of these days, using full XML rather than sticking to my HTML 3.2 roots.

[Spriggan]

you mean XHTML JP, XML is a completly different thing.

[stacer]

XML is a markup used in things like Quark, isn't it? Or at least, in InCopy and InDesign. I think I was going to have to learn it if I stayed on at Houghton, because they were transitioning over to it.

[JP Dogberry]

Yeah yeah, so I left out a letter.  Big words coming from someone whose birthday we celebrate by intentionally misspelling words.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

actually, it was two letters. HT

Big words from someone whose whole country gratuitously ADDS letters to words like armor, honor, and color.

[JP Dogberry]

So I can't count. Big words coming from a, ....uhh, Guy with Ninja Monkeys!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

and you're right. I can't count my ninja monkeys. For they are legion.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

XML is a superset of XHTML and can be used for tons of stuff beyond just web pages.