[Doc-SIG] <tt> tagging (was Re: Some random thoughts)

[Peter Funk]

Hi!

> Peter Funk writes:
>  > A <tt> (or monospaced) tag is not only pure presentation.

Fred L. Drake, Jr.:
>   The tt font is needed for your examples, but more than just that:
> it must be recognized as a complete, pre-formatted chunk.  Whitespace, 
> including line endings, must also be preserved.

Agreed.  That was what I meant by writing "glyph position carry
content".

>   You hint that you understand this, but I think this separates your
> examples from general <tt> markup support.
>   I don't see any need to support arbitrary specification of a tt
> font in a docstring.  We just need to recognize ASCII diagrams,
> tables, and code snippets.  Heck, we don't have to understand them, or 
> even tell one from the other.

100% agreed.  

Regards, Peter
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