Library of Formatting Examples:No-wrap
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"No-wrap" tags look like this:
/* ... */
They are used in situations where we need to preserve line breaks or indentations, such as in poetry, tables, lists, or title pages; or where text is right-justified, such as signatures on letters.
What all of those situations have in common is that they involve blocks of text that look different from regular text, and the line breaks in those blocks must be preserved. By contrast, when a block of text looks "different" but there is no need to preserve the line breaks, we use a block quote. No-wraps may occur within block quotes, but not the other way around, because block quotes contain wrappable text while no-wraps prevent any wrapping.
Before reviewing these examples, make sure you are familiar with the Lists, Tables, Poetry/Epigrams, Right-aligned Text, and Out-of-Line Markup sections of the Formatting Guidelines.
Contents
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- 00A: No-wrap or block quotes?
- 00B: No-wrap or block quotes?
- 01A: Lists
- 02A: Poetry
- 04A: Signatures
- 05A: Indentation
- 06A: Hanging indents
- 07A: Spacing; attributions
- 08A: Inscriptions