Unfortunately, that also made no difference. I changed the one very long line to use [= =] instead of [@ @], and that makes everything okay. Except that line isn't highlighted, but that seems preferable at this point.
Thanks for trying, no idea why that didn't work. :-( cheers, maria On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:43 AM, DaveG <[email protected]> wrote: > wikitext is added by PmWiki during page generation. It's the main container > for the wiki page. Simply add this to the css file: > .wikitext{ > width: 600px; > } > > Maria McKinley wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:57 AM, DaveG <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The main issue is that code tags are defined as: >>> code.escaped { >>> white-space:nowrap; >>> } >>> >>> What this means is that the line will be as long as necessary to fit the >>> entire text, without wrapping. The side effect of this is that now the >>> entire .rightColumn is the same width as the 'code', so even setting >>> lesser >>> widths on other elements won't change the rightColumn width. >>> >>> Normally the solution is to add "overflow: auto", to add a scrollbar to >>> the >>> non-wrapped lines. In this case that doesn't work, and I didn't have time >>> to >>> work out why. (Strangely adding "overflow: auto; white-space: nowrap" to >>> .vspace does force the scrollbar -- although it has the significant >>> unwanted >>> effect of putting a scrollbar on every .vspace paragraph :) ) I *suspect* >>> this has something to do with using tables -- but I have no evidence for >>> that other than inexperience with tables. >>> >>> pre tags seem to work fine, so one thing you might try is defining code >>> to >>> be the same as pre, on line 137 of rounded.css: >>> pre, code { >>> >>> btw, adding a width to wikitext rather than rightColumn forces the >>> rightColumn width. >>> >>> Summary: Add a width to .wikitext, and make code the same as pre. >>> >>> ~ ~ Dave >> >> Thanks Dave. I see what you mean now about there being a long line of >> code that is forcing all of the code blocks to be a certain size, and >> how it would be ideal if there were just a scrollbar for that line. I >> guess then the rest would just be as big as they needed to be for that >> particular block, or more probably go to the wraparound point. >> Unfortunately, your solution did not fix this for me. Actually, I only >> tried it partway. I added code to pre, but I had to use rightColumn >> for the width, because I did not see a .wikitext. But doing these two >> things seemed to have no affect. Is .wikitext being missing maybe part >> of the problem? I am using the most recent rounded, so not sure why >> this would be, unless .wikitext is suppose to be somewhere besides >> rounded.css. >> >> thanks, >> maria >> > -- Maria Mckinley Scientific Programmer Shadlen Lab Physiology and Biophysics Box 357290 University of Washington (206) 616-3923 [email protected] -- _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
