Re: Feature request: export form feed as page break

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 22/10/2023 16:00, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
> 
>> P.S. I am against using non-printable characters for markup. It might be
>> an \... entity for page break inside a paragraph, "#+...:" keyword
>> between block-level elements, etc.
> 
> What about all the above? We may provide entity, keyword, and also ^L.

I have not changed my opinion. Control characters should not be used for 
plain text markup.

^L might be inconvenient for users of browser-based tools (organice, 
etc.). Firefox displays it as a square with 0c code inside <textarea> 
and as some space in regular tags. In Chromium it is invisible similar 
to zero-width space. Fortunately browsers allows to copy a paste it, it 
is exemption from control characters that are stripped on copy to 
protect users from unexpected effects of paste.

However e.g. konsole (terminal application) shows a warning popup on 
attempt to paste text containing ^L.

My vote is for portability, so usage of ^L should be discouraged.