Just like the .text-wrap and .text-nowrap classes that sets white-space to "normal" and "nowrap", there could also be a text class as mentioned in the title?
Utilities are for frequently repeated property-value pairs鈥擨 don't think this is as utilized as the others. Closing as a won't fix for now.
This would be handy to mimic PHP's nl2br() function.
Use <pre> HTML5 tag
@mdo I think this is really on demand, consult the following SO question if you want
<pre> changes the font to monospace and introduces another tag.