Bill Christensen wrote: > >I've seen the same happen in the archives. For instance, this >original message is not wrapped: > ><http://pec4u.org/pipermail/watchdogs/2008-July/000763.html> > >but this reply to it wraps the quoted text from the first just fine: > ><http://pec4u.org/pipermail/watchdogs/2008-July/000764.html> > >(both of these display properly wrapped in my Eudora/Mac) > >It appears that a fair number of pipermail archived posts aren't >wrapped. Any way to keep that from happening?
This is a pipermail issue. It is somewhat distinct from the issue in the OP. Here's the story. Some MUAs compose messages in "word processer" paragraph form and send them either with long lines or with encoded lines that decode into long lines. As noted earlier in this thread, the viewer's MUA generally wraps these long lines to the window width. Pipermail, however, creates the archive page by wrapping the message text with <pre> ... </pre> tags to preserve the original formatting of the text. If it didn't do that, normally formatted text and things like Col 1 Col 2 Col 3 ... xx yy zz aaa bbbb c would all be run together on the displayed archive page like this. If it didn't do that, normally formatted text and things like Col 1 Col 2 Col 3 ... xx yy zz aaa bbbb c would all be run together on the displayed archive page like this. The problem is that the <pre> tag causes the browser to display the long line as a long line without wrapping it to window width. This is a dificult problem to solve. One could remove the <pre> ... </pre> wrapper and replace every newline in the text with <br>. That would work for text, but tabular data as above would still be compressed on the individual lines. For tabular data, you would need to expand tab characters if any and replace spaces with entities, but you can't replace all spaces with entities or you'd be back to the original problem. Combine that with the fact that Pipermail is a can of worms that no one wants to touch, and you're stuck with what you've got. The answer should be to get everyone to use an MUA that creates flowed text per RFC 3676 for 'paragraphs', but good luck on that one. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
