Interesting, I'd never noticed that before. I'm looking at the raw
email received by The Mail Archive (note to self, it is #5525) and am
wondering why mhonarc decided not to use the usual pre tag. I think it
is probably because the Content-Type on the message is asking for
reflow.
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
My guess is you won't see this problem if the content type is just
text/plain, although I don't know how feasible that is for users. I'm
not sure what to do here, and I think the options are:
a) do nothing
b) try to modify the CSS so that spaces in the TT tag
are not consolidated
c) encourage you to take up the issue on mhonarc-user
Open to discussion. I'm currently feeling pretty gun shy about "b".
Cheers,
Jeff
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In some cases, consecutive spaces that are present in a plain text email
(as shown in the mail-archive html source) are not displayed because they
are within a tt container (instead of a pre container) and therefore get
condensed to a single space when rendered.
For an example, see:
http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg12548.html
Toward the end of the script source in that email, you'll see this:
echo "EEEEEEE RRRRRR RRRRRR OOOOOO RRRRRR"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "EEEEEE RRRRR RRRRR O O RRRRRR"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "EEEEEE R R R R OOOOOO R R"
Whereas in the source html, you'll see this:
echo "EEEEEEE RRRRRR RRRRRR OOOOOO RRRRRR"<br>
echo "E R R R R O O R R"<br>
echo "E R R R R O O R R"<br>
echo "E R R R R O O R R"<br>
echo "EEEEEE RRRRR RRRRR O O RRRRRR"<br>
echo "E R R R R O O R R"<br>
echo "E R R R R O O R R"<br>
echo "E R R R R O O R R"<br>
echo "EEEEEE R R R R OOOOOO R R"<br>
Note that the leading spaces and some internal spaces are not rendered.
What you should be seeing in the web page is this:
echo "EEEEEEE RRRRRR RRRRRR OOOOOO RRRRRR"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "EEEEEE RRRRR RRRRR O O RRRRRR"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "EEEEEE R R R R OOOOOO R R"
There are several other places in that email where copy'n'paste of
Unix output containing leading or embedded strings of spaces are
missing the extra spaces, yet in other places, a pre container is
used that *does* preserve the spaces.
Can this missing leading/consecutive spaces problem be fixed?
Thanks.
--
John Van Essen Univ of Minn. Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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