[CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Matthew Sherman
For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one of
my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
assistance is welcome.

Matt Sherman


Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Al Matthews
Quick answer, sorry: might require some css 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms531186(v=vs.85).aspx

Alternately Notepad ++?

It’s not a crazy question: .txt only wins as a file if people realize it can be 
read.

--
Al Matthews
Software Developer, Digital Services Unit
Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library
email: amatth...@auctr.edu; office: 1 404 978 2057


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Subject: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one of
my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
assistance is welcome.

Matt Sherman


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[CODE4LIB] The Archivematica + DuraCloud Preservation Service Beta Test

2014-10-13 Thread Carol Minton Morris
Oct. 13, 2014

Contact: Michele Kimpton (mkimp...@duraspace.org); Evelyn McLellan 
(eve...@artefactual.com)
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1CdhUj9

The Archivematica + DuraCloud “Soup-to-Nuts” Preservation Service Beta Test

The Archivematica + DuraCloud hosted service has launched a beta test with 
pilot partners that will be ongoing from October 2014 to January 2015. The 
organizations participating in the pilot are:

Berea College (http://www.berea.edu/)
The Huntington Library (http://huntington.org/)
Illinois Wesleyan University (https://www.iwu.edu/)
Kansas State University (http://ksu.edu/)
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources: State Archive and State 
Library (http://www.ncdcr.gov/)
Pepperdine University (http://www.pepperdine.edu/)
Phillips Academy (http://www.andover.edu/)
University of Texas at San Antonio (http://utsa.edu/)
University of Washington (http://www.washington.edu/)

Ensuring that robust Archivematica Archival Information Packages (AIPs) have a 
secure long-term home is the idea behind the new Archivematica + DuraCloud 
hosted service. The new integrated service is designed to provide users with a 
robust preservation workflow plus long-­term archiving in a single hosted 
solution.

The DuraCloud cloud­-based archiving and preservation service platform manages 
and preserves digital objects. DuraCloud enables user management and 
preservation of content without locking into a single cloud provider. DuraCloud 
also features value­-added services such as regular bit-­level health checks 
for all content stored in DuraCloud. The platform is open-­source and free to 
download, but also available as a hosted solution from DuraSpace.

Archivematica is an open­-source tool for ingesting digital objects and 
preparing them for long­-term preservation. Archivematica accommodates a 
variety of OAIS-­based digital curation workflows, and provides a flexible 
framework for normalizing ingested digital objects to durable, 
preservation-­friendly formats. The system performs a series of preservation 
micro­services and generates Archival Information Packages (AIPs) consisting of 
the ingested digital objects, any normalized preservation masters generated 
during processing, and detailed PREMIS metadata packaged into standard METS XML 
files.

The powerful combined Archivematica + DuraCloud service meets all 21 aspects of 
managing and preserving digital objects identified by the IMLS funded white 
paper “From Theory to Action, which analyzes and compares digital preservation 
solutions for under-resourced institutions. The service will be launched to the 
general public early 2015, based on the completion of a successful pilot.

More Information

If your organization is interested in learning more about the new Archivematica 
+ DuraCloud service please contact Michele Kimpton (mkimp...@duraspace.org), 
Evelyn McLellan (eve...@artefactual.com), or complete the inquiry form at 
http://duracloud.org/archivematica.


Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Matthew Sherman wrote:

 For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
 word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one of
 my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
 reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
 repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
 them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
 assistance is welcome.

If there's a way to do it, it likely wouldn't be something that 
you could send from the server.

Depending on the web server that you're using, you might be able to
use client detection, and then pass requests from IE through a CGI
(or similar) that does the line-wrapping ... or wraps it in HTML.

If you go the HTML route, you might be able to just put the whole
thing in a textarea element.


If you *do* have to modify all of the text files, as you specifically
mention that they're e-mails, I'd recommend looking at 'flowed'
formatting, which uses 79 character lines, but SP CRLF to mark
'soft' returns:

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt

You could also try just setting an HTTP header to 'Format: Flowed'
and see if IE will handle it from there.  (I'd test myself, but
I don't have IE to test with)

-Joe


Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Cary Gordon
IE through 9 has word-wrap, word-break and white-space CSS properties that 
would likely work for you. They need a defined container to work, and the 
easiest way is to set your div width to an appropriate percentage.

It is best if you limit their visibility to IE 7-9, and they may generate 
errors in other browsers.

Thanks,

Cary

On Oct 13, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote:

 For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
 word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one of
 my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
 reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
 repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
 them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
 assistance is welcome.
 
 Matt Sherman


[CODE4LIB] Call for Submissions and Nominations for PRIMO

2014-10-13 Thread Kyle Breneman
The Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the
ACRL Instruction Section invites you to submit your online information
literacy tutorial, virtual tour, or other online library instruction
project for review and possible inclusion in PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed
Instructional Materials Online.

***Deadlines for Fall 2014***
Nominations: October 31, 2014
Submissions: November 14, 2014

Additional information about PRIMO, as well as the submission and
nomination forms, is available from the following link:
http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/is/iswebsite/projpubs/primo

Site submissions for PRIMO are accepted continually, but are reviewed for
possible inclusion twice per year.  If you would like to submit your own
project for consideration, please use the Submission form rather than the
Nomination form. For further information, please contact committee
co-chairs Alec Sonsteby at alexander.sonst...@metrostate.edu and Jodie
Borgerding at jborgerdin...@webster.edu.

**Important note**
All submissions will be acknowledged shortly after the submission deadline.
If you submit a project for review and do not receive an acknowledgment
after the submission deadline, please contact the PRIMO co-chairs with a
request for verification that your submission was transmitted successfully.

Alec Sonsteby  Jodie Borgerding
Co-chairs, ACRL IS PRIMO Committee

Alec Sonsteby, M.S.
Associate Professor and Reference  Instruction Librarian
Metropolitan State University
700 E 7th St
Saint Paul, MN 55106
alexander.sonst...@metrostate.edu
(651) 793-1636

Jodie L. Borgerding, M.L.S.
Instruction and Liaison Librarian
Emerson Library
Webster University
470 E. Lockwood
St. Louis, MO 63119
jborgerdin...@webster.edu
(314) 246-7819


Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew Anderson
I’ve never attempted this, but instead of linking to the text files directly, 
can you include the text files in an iframe and leverage that to apply 
sizing/styling information to the iframe content?

Something like:

html
body
iframe src=“/path/to/file.txt”/iframe
/body
/html

That structure, combined with some javascript tricks might get you where you 
need to be:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4612374/iframe-inherit-from-parent

Of course, if you’re already going that far, you’re not too far removed from 
just pulling the text file into a nicely formatted container via AJAX, and 
styling that container as needed, without the iframe hackery.

-- 
Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources 
Network, Inc.
http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | 
http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes

On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote:

 For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
 word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one of
 my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
 reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
 repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
 them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
 assistance is welcome.
 
 Matt Sherman


Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Matthew Sherman
Thanks for the insights.  I was really hoping IE had a setting.  The
problem is that these are txt files with copies of the permissions e-mails
for our institutional repository that we store in the backend of the record
in DSpace.  So I do not know that I can edit the HTML to make them display
properly in IE.  The real frustration is that they do display, and the
Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ect. display them fine, but IE does not and this
supervisor only seems to use IE.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Andrew Anderson and...@lirn.net wrote:

 I’ve never attempted this, but instead of linking to the text files
 directly, can you include the text files in an iframe and leverage that
 to apply sizing/styling information to the iframe content?

 Something like:

 html
 body
 iframe src=“/path/to/file.txt”/iframe
 /body
 /html

 That structure, combined with some javascript tricks might get you where
 you need to be:

 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4612374/iframe-inherit-from-parent

 Of course, if you’re already going that far, you’re not too far removed
 from just pulling the text file into a nicely formatted container via AJAX,
 and styling that container as needed, without the iframe hackery.

 --
 Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information
 Resources Network, Inc.
 http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes |
 http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes

 On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
  word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one of
  my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
  reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
  repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
  them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
  assistance is welcome.
 
  Matt Sherman



Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Kyle Banerjee
You could encode it quotable-printable or mess with content disposition
http headers.

But using these hacks or others mentioned on your data to accommodate this
use case doesn't strike me a great idea since solutions like this don't age
well.

You might suggest to your supervisor to right click and download and then
view in something else like notepad which can be set to word wrap. Or
select all and paste wherever.

Alternatively, if the supervisor doesn't actually read the emails, say that
that everyone that needs to can read the emails just fine, but there seems
to be an issue with his or her machine ;)

kyle

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Thanks for the insights.  I was really hoping IE had a setting.  The
 problem is that these are txt files with copies of the permissions e-mails
 for our institutional repository that we store in the backend of the record
 in DSpace.  So I do not know that I can edit the HTML to make them display
 properly in IE.  The real frustration is that they do display, and the
 Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ect. display them fine, but IE does not and this
 supervisor only seems to use IE.

 On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Andrew Anderson and...@lirn.net wrote:

  I’ve never attempted this, but instead of linking to the text files
  directly, can you include the text files in an iframe and leverage that
  to apply sizing/styling information to the iframe content?
 
  Something like:
 
  html
  body
  iframe src=“/path/to/file.txt”/iframe
  /body
  /html
 
  That structure, combined with some javascript tricks might get you where
  you need to be:
 
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4612374/iframe-inherit-from-parent
 
  Of course, if you’re already going that far, you’re not too far removed
  from just pulling the text file into a nicely formatted container via
 AJAX,
  and styling that container as needed, without the iframe hackery.
 
  --
  Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information
  Resources Network, Inc.
  http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes |
  http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes
 
  On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
   word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one
 of
   my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
   reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
   repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot
 tell
   them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
   assistance is welcome.
  
   Matt Sherman
 



Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew Berger
In IE 11, at least, when you view source on a text file, you get a window
that has the option of turning word wrap on or off. I think it's probably
embedding notepad or wordpad's viewing capabilities.

Andrew Berger

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Thanks for the insights.  I was really hoping IE had a setting.  The
 problem is that these are txt files with copies of the permissions e-mails
 for our institutional repository that we store in the backend of the record
 in DSpace.  So I do not know that I can edit the HTML to make them display
 properly in IE.  The real frustration is that they do display, and the
 Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ect. display them fine, but IE does not and this
 supervisor only seems to use IE.




Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Cary Gordon
You are right, if they need to display the actual text file. With Drupal or PHP 
and some .htaccess magic, we read the text file, then display it as formatted 
html, with the name shown as the text file name. That is what I had in mind.

Cary

On Oct 13, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote:

 You could encode it quotable-printable or mess with content disposition
 http headers.
 
 But using these hacks or others mentioned on your data to accommodate this
 use case doesn't strike me a great idea since solutions like this don't age
 well.
 
 You might suggest to your supervisor to right click and download and then
 view in something else like notepad which can be set to word wrap. Or
 select all and paste wherever.
 
 Alternatively, if the supervisor doesn't actually read the emails, say that
 that everyone that needs to can read the emails just fine, but there seems
 to be an issue with his or her machine ;)
 
 kyle
 
 On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 Thanks for the insights.  I was really hoping IE had a setting.  The
 problem is that these are txt files with copies of the permissions e-mails
 for our institutional repository that we store in the backend of the record
 in DSpace.  So I do not know that I can edit the HTML to make them display
 properly in IE.  The real frustration is that they do display, and the
 Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ect. display them fine, but IE does not and this
 supervisor only seems to use IE.
 
 On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Andrew Anderson and...@lirn.net wrote:
 
 I’ve never attempted this, but instead of linking to the text files
 directly, can you include the text files in an iframe and leverage that
 to apply sizing/styling information to the iframe content?
 
 Something like:
 
 html
 body
 iframe src=“/path/to/file.txt”/iframe
 /body
 /html
 
 That structure, combined with some javascript tricks might get you where
 you need to be:
 
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4612374/iframe-inherit-from-parent
 
 Of course, if you’re already going that far, you’re not too far removed
 from just pulling the text file into a nicely formatted container via
 AJAX,
 and styling that container as needed, without the iframe hackery.
 
 --
 Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information
 Resources Network, Inc.
 http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes |
 http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes
 
 On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
 word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one
 of
 my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
 reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
 repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot
 tell
 them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
 assistance is welcome.
 
 Matt Sherman
 
 


Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 13, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:

 You could encode it quotable-printable or mess with content disposition
 http headers.

Oh, please not quoted-printable.  That's=
the one that makes you think that something=
is wrong with your mail client because=
there are strange equals signs (=3D) all=
over the place.

-Joe


Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Cornel Darden Jr.
Hello,

I'm not sure I completely understand your question. In my library Internet 
explorer is a big no no. We haven't had anyone insist on using it. We've even 
tried to have out hidden but the IT gods won't upset their Microsoft masters 
like that. 

Is batch converting the emails to pdf or jpg not a solution? 

The point is just to see the content in IE right?

If not, this is one of many IE issues that is well documented. Changing the 
code for all the email and putting them in an iframe might work as was 
mentioned earlier. I'm curious about this and would like to solve it, but 
opening IE is not something I'm prepared to do. 

It does sound like a white space issue that could be changed with some CSS

Thanks,

Cornel Darden Jr.  
MSLIS
Library Department Chair
South Suburban College
7087052945

Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong 
learning.

Sent from my iPhone

 On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
 word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one of
 my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
 reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
 repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
 them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
 assistance is welcome.
 
 Matt Sherman


Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Matthew Sherman
The question was mostly if there was an easy in browser fix for word wrap
on txt files displaying in IE.  Sadly that does not sound like it is the
case.  In this instance it is related to a hire-up who only uses IE for
their browser requesting the files word wrap in their browser or be
converted to another format that does.  This issue is unique to IE since
all other browsers are smart enough to word wrap txt files, and that these
are hundreds of txt files stored in DSpace not visible to the public but
archiving our e-mails which we obtained publisher permission for posting
publications of our authors.The DSpace angle also complicates things a bit
as they do not have any built in CSS that I could edit for this purpose.  I
am hoping they will be amenable to the suggestions to right click and open
in notepad because txt files are darn preservation friendly and readable
with almost anything since they are some of the simplest files in
computing.  Thanks for the input folks.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hello,

 I'm not sure I completely understand your question. In my library Internet
 explorer is a big no no. We haven't had anyone insist on using it. We've
 even tried to have out hidden but the IT gods won't upset their Microsoft
 masters like that.

 Is batch converting the emails to pdf or jpg not a solution?

 The point is just to see the content in IE right?

 If not, this is one of many IE issues that is well documented. Changing
 the code for all the email and putting them in an iframe might work as was
 mentioned earlier. I'm curious about this and would like to solve it, but
 opening IE is not something I'm prepared to do.

 It does sound like a white space issue that could be changed with some CSS

 Thanks,

 Cornel Darden Jr.
 MSLIS
 Library Department Chair
 South Suburban College
 7087052945

 Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong
 learning.

 Sent from my iPhone

  On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
  word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one of
  my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
  reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
  repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
  them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
  assistance is welcome.
 
  Matt Sherman



Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Andy Boze
My first thought was to create a custom style sheet, but sadly IE 
doesn't seem to apply it to plain text files, regardless of the fact 
that IE wraps then in HTML. Of course, I've never used a custom style 
sheet with IE before, so maybe I did something wrong.


Two other possibilities. Once the txt file is loaded in IE, press Ctrl-U 
to view source, which _does_ have word wrap. The other possibility, try 
a bookmarklet. Found one that works at 
http://cerealnumber.livejournal.com/37372.html. The only change I'd 
suggest making is to substitute _whiteSpace='pre-wrap'_ for 
_wordWrap='break-word'_.


Either of these assumes your supervisor wouldn't object to an extra 
keypress or click.


On 10/13/2014 10:13 PM, Matthew Sherman wrote:

The question was mostly if there was an easy in browser fix for word wrap
on txt files displaying in IE.  Sadly that does not sound like it is the
case.  In this instance it is related to a hire-up who only uses IE for
their browser requesting the files word wrap in their browser or be
converted to another format that does.  This issue is unique to IE since
all other browsers are smart enough to word wrap txt files, and that these
are hundreds of txt files stored in DSpace not visible to the public but
archiving our e-mails which we obtained publisher permission for posting
publications of our authors.The DSpace angle also complicates things a bit
as they do not have any built in CSS that I could edit for this purpose.  I
am hoping they will be amenable to the suggestions to right click and open
in notepad because txt files are darn preservation friendly and readable
with almost anything since they are some of the simplest files in
computing.  Thanks for the input folks.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde...@gmail.com

wrote:



Hello,

I'm not sure I completely understand your question. In my library Internet
explorer is a big no no. We haven't had anyone insist on using it. We've
even tried to have out hidden but the IT gods won't upset their Microsoft
masters like that.

Is batch converting the emails to pdf or jpg not a solution?

The point is just to see the content in IE right?

If not, this is one of many IE issues that is well documented. Changing
the code for all the email and putting them in an iframe might work as was
mentioned earlier. I'm curious about this and would like to solve it, but
opening IE is not something I'm prepared to do.

It does sound like a white space issue that could be changed with some CSS

Thanks,

Cornel Darden Jr.
MSLIS
Library Department Chair
South Suburban College
7087052945

Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong
learning.

Sent from my iPhone


On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com

wrote:


For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but one of
my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell
them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
assistance is welcome.

Matt Sherman




Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance

2014-10-13 Thread Andy Boze
I spoke (figuratively) too soon. The custom style sheet took effect 
after I restarted IE.


Create a file called ie.css (or anything you want) and enter the 
following code in it.


pre {
  white-space: pre-wrap;
}

Open IE's Internet Options and in the General tab click the 
Accessibility button. Check the Format documents... box and fill in 
the path to the style sheet. Click OK, then restart IE. Plain text files 
will now wrap lines.


Caveat -- this may have unwanted effects on Web pages having other 
styles on pre elements.


On 10/14/2014 12:50 AM, Andy Boze wrote:

My first thought was to create a custom style sheet, but sadly IE
doesn't seem to apply it to plain text files, regardless of the fact
that IE wraps then in HTML. Of course, I've never used a custom style
sheet with IE before, so maybe I did something wrong.

Two other possibilities. Once the txt file is loaded in IE, press Ctrl-U
to view source, which _does_ have word wrap. The other possibility, try
a bookmarklet. Found one that works at
http://cerealnumber.livejournal.com/37372.html. The only change I'd
suggest making is to substitute _whiteSpace='pre-wrap'_ for
_wordWrap='break-word'_.

Either of these assumes your supervisor wouldn't object to an extra
keypress or click.

On 10/13/2014 10:13 PM, Matthew Sherman wrote:

The question was mostly if there was an easy in browser fix for word wrap
on txt files displaying in IE.  Sadly that does not sound like it is the
case.  In this instance it is related to a hire-up who only uses IE for
their browser requesting the files word wrap in their browser or be
converted to another format that does.  This issue is unique to IE since
all other browsers are smart enough to word wrap txt files, and that
these
are hundreds of txt files stored in DSpace not visible to the public but
archiving our e-mails which we obtained publisher permission for posting
publications of our authors.The DSpace angle also complicates things a
bit
as they do not have any built in CSS that I could edit for this
purpose.  I
am hoping they will be amenable to the suggestions to right click and
open
in notepad because txt files are darn preservation friendly and readable
with almost anything since they are some of the simplest files in
computing.  Thanks for the input folks.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Cornel Darden Jr.
corneldarde...@gmail.com

wrote:



Hello,

I'm not sure I completely understand your question. In my library
Internet
explorer is a big no no. We haven't had anyone insist on using it. We've
even tried to have out hidden but the IT gods won't upset their
Microsoft
masters like that.

Is batch converting the emails to pdf or jpg not a solution?

The point is just to see the content in IE right?

If not, this is one of many IE issues that is well documented. Changing
the code for all the email and putting them in an iframe might work
as was
mentioned earlier. I'm curious about this and would like to solve it,
but
opening IE is not something I'm prepared to do.

It does sound like a white space issue that could be changed with
some CSS

Thanks,

Cornel Darden Jr.
MSLIS
Library Department Chair
South Suburban College
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On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com

wrote:


For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
word wrap when it displays txt files?  This is an odd question but
one of
my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot
tell
them how to turn on word wrap.  Yes it is as crazy as it sounds.  Any
assistance is welcome.

Matt Sherman