On 10/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Deb Lewis</b> <<a href="mailto:djlewis@acm.org">djlewis@acm.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The nicer response is that you need to let go of that attachment to<br>your source formatting. (As did I, in fact). The masterview output is<br>a generated artifact, it's *not* the master source and it's not the
<br>text that you work on when you're authoring the page, so don't expect<br>it to be more than it needs to be. It has to be functionally correct<br>and it's nice if it's at least reasonably readable, since in practice
<br>we *do* end up looking at generated page source at various points in<br>web page development (View Source!), but it doesn't need to be a<br>precise mirror of the original text.<br></blockquote></div><br><br>And I believe that we do keep much of the formatting and things in place when we render but it is possible that in a few places we lose some whitespace in the processing. We took a reasonable effort to keep the original as close as possible without adding too much complexity to the code. I think the majority of the discrepancies might be near the transitions between files.
<br><br>I'll try to keep your wishes in mind when we are working on some of the modules, if there are opportunities to improve the retention of whitespace.<br clear="all"><br>Blessings,<br><br>Jeff<br>-- <br>Jeff Barczewski, MasterView core team
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