Re: line break

In article <slrnf6pctg.4ka.no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
dorayme wrote:

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do not use any flavor of <br> for line breaks, except
perhaps in poetry.

Is this not too severe? For example, on some occasions with
pictures, there is nothing wrong with using <br> to make a
comment or caption appear underneath the picture.

There are exceptions to every rule. <g>

The exception to that rule is that some rules have no exceptions. :)

Actually, this is quite an interesting idea, as in paradoxical
(as in it makes the head hurt thinking about it).

But before getting into this, perhaps it can just be side stepped
because "There are exceptions to every rule" is not a rule but a
claim. Either true or false. I suspect it is false. But that a
closely related claim, in the spirit of it, is true, namely that
most rules we use have at least a few reasonable exceptions.

--
dorayme
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