At 9:01 AM -0700 8/14/98, Rick Troth wrote:
The world changes, and people try to get machines
to do things that they couldn't do before. I fully expect more
use of character recognition, so that documents will get scanned
from paper. In that scenario, leading white space *might* survive,
trailing white space will probably be lost, and intermediate white
space will be hard to quantify as anything more than "just a blank".
Even today, this behavior is seen in cut-n-paste operations.
The draft makes allowances for loss of trailing white space; the text
simply becomes format=fixed, and we are no worse off than we would be
without format=flowed. Leading and intermediate white space is
irrelevant to the draft.