On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Randy Pratt wrote:
I've noticed that trying to copy content from the rendered Handbook
from a browser does not retain the line breaks in some places. This
occurs for material that are contained within a <programlisting> or
<screen> elements.
As an example, try to copy and paste some content from the section
30.6.5.5. for "An Example Stateful Ruleset" into a text editor.
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html)
The result is the entire copied content is a single line which would
require a lot of tedious editing. I've tried different browsers with
the same result. I finally ended using the xml source to do the
copy.
I seem to remember being able to do a copy but it was probably
when sgml was used. Is there some way to make it easier to copy
these sections?
Firefox on FreeBSD does this for me also. Interestingly, IE on Windows
copies and pastes that example fine. Firefox does not, on either
FreeBSD or Windows. Midori on FreeBSD pastes it correctly. Either a
new Firefox bug, or maybe a default setting that changed?
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