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Created November 14, 2019 12:53
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  1. bruce lawson created this gist Nov 14, 2019.
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    There are many sites displaying song lyrics or poetry. In these artistic works, line breaks are important; they carry meaning.
    Most sites markup the authorial line break with a <br> element to force the browser to honour the author's intention.
    However, there are many occasions when a narrow screen forces a long line to wrap, and it is not possible for the reader to determine which line breaks are authorial (and thus have meaning/ semantics) and which are added by the browser (and are thus presentational).

    In printed media, there are typographic conventions to indicate the difference.