in reply to Re^9: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
in thread Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)

Well I remember loads of polemics because of pre-tags, don't see how this would be easier if it's an official feature.

Cheers Rolf
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Re^11: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 10, 2020 at 16:00 UTC

    Well the end product would not look the same as using <pre> tags. The latter always* uses fixed-width font, and doesn't word break*, etc. My thought is that plain text would differ from <pre> text on those points and possibly others.