URL: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?32665>
Summary: allow message display to wrap (simple HTML change) Project: MHonArc Submitted by: skierpage Submitted on: Thu 03 Mar 2011 05:32:25 AM GMT Category: None Severity: 3 - Normal Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Undesired Behavior Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Operating System: Linux Perl Version: unknown Component Version: 2.6.18 Fixed Release: _______________________________________________________ Details: I browse the archives of mailing lists created by MHonArc. Many messages to mailing lists that use its ASCII preformatted display are not word-wrapped and so each paragraph appears as a few unreadably long lines in all browsers. See for example http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-February/msg00192.html , http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-February/msg00225.html , etc. The fix is easy, just change the PRE tag to invoke the CSS white-space handling: <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> I'm not positive but this might be line 557 in lib/mhtxtplain.pl, change - $$data = '<pre>' . $$data . '</pre>'; + $$data = '<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">' . $$data . '</pre>'; This _does not_ affect copy and paste of long lines and does not involve processing or changing the text within the pre tag in any way. It just makes many more messages readable! Mailman had the same bug and has incorporated this bug fix for some time, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266467 Earlier bug #13276: "Archive of mail lists does not text wrap in the Browser" seems to refer to the same issue. It was closed as Not a Bug with the comment "MHonArc provides options to deal with mis-behaved MUA's that do not properly format text messages." I'm not familiar with MHonArc admin, but this pre style fixes the problem with no downside. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?32665> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.nongnu.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majord...@mhonarc.org with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE MHONARC-DEV