Here's what BBEdit support said: Changing from XML to HTML in the prefs did the trick !
Begin forwarded message: > From: "Bare Bones Software Technical Support" <supp...@barebones.com> > Date: May 6, 2010 5:40:36 PM EDT > To: "Matt Martini" <matt.mart...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: (Case 180672) Bug Report: v9.5 (2740) - HTML Formatting Utility > Broken > > you wrote: > [...] >> It seems that the utility function to format HTML is no longer working >> properly. When this simple html document >> (cleaned up from a much longer original) is process by >> Utility->Format->Gentle Hierarchical (or Hierarchical or Document Skeleton) >> the closing tags are not un-indented to line up with with the opening tags, >> resulting in a forever increasing indentation. See the table >> in the example document. Using and old version of BBEdit 8.27.2 gives the >> correct result, see below. >> > > Hi Matt, > > Thanks for the report and the sample documents; after some testing, I've > figured out what's happening. > Since this document doesn't contain a DOCTYPE, BBEdit will fall back on its > default behavior rules when processing it. > In turn, these rules are determined by how the option "When generating markup > in unspecified documents, use..." (in the HTML Markup prefs panel) is set. > If this option is set to "XML", BBEdit will follow strict behavior and thus > the Format command will produce the output displayed in your "9.5" sample > file. > If this option is set to "HTML", then BBEdit will assume "HTML 4.0.1 > Transitional" and format the output accordingly, in this case producing your > desired result, e.g. the "8.7.2" sample. > Please note that (due to a bug which we'll fix in future) changes to this > option do not take effect immediately--you must instead exit and restart the > app, either by quitting and relaunching, or using "Sleep BBEdit" and > relaunching (less disruptive). > > I hope this helps, but if you have any further questions, or if we can > otherwise be of assistance, please let us know. > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com> > P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048 > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group.
