On 14 Feb, Dave Higton wrote in message
    <d2099ea551.davehig...@dsl.pipex.com>:

> It's curious that two so similar constructions behave so differently:

The thing is, as John explained, they're *not* that similar.

> <p><font face="monospace">         doesn't work;

That's a "legacy" HTML <font> tag...

> <p style="font-family:monospace">  does work,

...and that's CSS, included inline in a style attribute.

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