On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Les Schaffer wrote:
ravi wrote:
Given that Mailman is Python, we can hack it to be cleverer about
this sort of thing... that's what I meant in my earlier message.
its on my todo list with Hans this summer to customize the Utah
archive formatting if its simple enough to do. i have a funny
feeling though that Mailman is pretty limited in its re-formatting
options, but i will look thru the code to see whats up. if ravi or
others have links to working modules for Mailman that do this, i
will test them on my machine and then try them out with the Utah
server.
Les,
I run a bunch of Mailman lists. I will look into the code to see how
this can be handled... I guess ideally, the algorithm for the archiver
would be:
For each incoming message:
If Content-Type is text/plain:
For each line not prefaced by ">": // i.e., leave quoted
text alone
If length > 78:
Add line break at 78
and/or reformat paragraph
The easier way would be to get rid of the <PRE> tags that wrap around
the message, and let the browser handle the wrap, but then without the
<PRE>, formatted text may render badly. Though a fixed-width font and
inserting HTML <br/> tags at line breaks would probably take care of
the majority of such formatting.
Send me your thoughts/comments and I can start looking at the code,
--ravi
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