[pct-l] Hard returns

[Eugene]

Actually, it looks like the problem is because the archive encodes the text with the <pre> tag.  The only good reason I can see for having this is so you can make columns with text.  So this works in email readers where html is not used, but causes problems in the archive where html explicitely tells it to leave whitespace and to only break lines at line breaks.

 

Some web browsers may allow you to get around this problem.  I believe Opera would do this.
 
> From: gwtmp01 at mac.com
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 22:53:57 -0500
> To: aslive at sbcglobal.net
> CC: Pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Hard returns
> 
> 
> On Mar 6, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Amanda L Silvestri wrote:
> 
> > I have never done a hard return and my posts do not have that problem of going on past the right margin. Perhaps this depends on who your IP is.
> 
> This is not an Internet provider problem. The problem manifests
> itself when the original text has no 'hard returns' and the display
> mechanism doesn't arrange for the long lines to be wrapped.
> 
> As Wes Rose pointed out, you can see this in the archives:
> 
> http://mailman.backcountry.net/pipermail/pct-l/2010-March/date.html
> 
> This is because the PCT-L archive software doesn't wrap the long
> lines explicitly when generating the HTML or implicitly via the
> appropriate HTML and/or CSS styling options.
> 
> In contrast, everything looks OK via Gmail because Gmail represents
> email messages in HTML in a different manner than PCT-L archives
> such that the lines get wrapped.
> 
> Bottom Line:
> -- inserting hard returns will ensure your text looks OK almost
> everywhere (but can cause problems with deeply nested quoted text).
> -- PCT-L software could be tweaked to make the archives render
> in a more reasonable manner.
> 
> Radar
> 
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