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From: Markus Gebhard <ukgh@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Henry Segerman wrote:
> :> I've not seen those before. You mean like <code><pre> stuff </pre></code> ?
> 
> : Yes that's it.
> 
> :> What does that change?
> 
> : It tells the browser to use a fixed width font there.
> 
> Doesn't pre do that already?

No, pre only tells the browser where to keep the blanks and line
breakings like they are in the html source. Otherwise duplicate blanks
are united to a single one and line breaks are ignored. Code will make
it look like program source code - that means the browser will use a
fixed width font.

Markus