On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 07:13:32AM -0500, 'Bill Tantzen' via DSpace Technical Support wrote: > Right, and I really don't want markup in a txt file...
Well, we could devise a really *simple* language. It could be as simple as: o leading whitespace means indent; o one or more consecutive empty lines means a paragraph break. But, to fit into a page that must be pourable into a viewport of any width, the text must be *rendered*, not just flung out as-is. Right now I think we're getting what happens when you stick arbitrary character content with no markup inside a <div>. It works, but we lose too much structure. You could work around this a bit by altering the page template so that the license text is surrounded by <pre></pre>, but that will only work well at one size because it depends on the text being already formatted to fit the screen's width. There are similar difficulties with abstracts and the like, for which there is an issue on file. I don't think that the same solution will work for all of these. I just point out a general problem. > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 7:08 AM Mark H. Wood <mwoodiu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 02:20:02PM -0500, 'Bill Tantzen' via DSpace > > Technical Support wrote: > > > In DSpace 7.3, the displayed license text does not respect the line > > breaks > > > and extra whitespace in default.license (as it did in v5.10). > > > > > > Is this a theming issue? Is there a way to reintroduce the line breaks > > for > > > readability? > > > > I sympathize. We're going to have that same issue here. > > > > It's going to be a bit tricky, though. To fit a variety of display > > widths, the text really should be filled. To do this *and* permit > > arbitrary breaks, indents and the like requires some kind of embedded > > markup. > > > > And have we given sufficient thought to the accessibility of the > > license text? If it's just a single ragged rectangle then this is > > fairly easy. Structured text is more difficult. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/YvOqDQfATlFdpg6V%40IUPUI.Edu.
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