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
7087052945
"Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong
learning."
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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
