Re: Consecutive spaces not displayed in some cases

Interesting, I'd never noticed that before. I'm looking at the raw
email received by The Mail Archive (note to self, it is #5525) and am
wondering why mhonarc decided not to use the usual pre tag. I think it
is probably because the Content-Type on the message is asking for
reflow.

  Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed

My guess is you won't see this problem if the content type is just
text/plain, although I don't know how feasible that is for users. I'm
not sure what to do here, and I think the options are:

 a) do nothing

 b) try to modify the CSS so that spaces in the TT tag
    are not consolidated

 c) encourage you to take up the issue on mhonarc-user


Open to discussion. I'm currently feeling pretty gun shy about "b".

Cheers,
Jeff

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In some cases, consecutive spaces that are present in a plain text email
(as shown in the mail-archive html source) are not displayed because they
are within a tt container (instead of a pre container) and therefore get
condensed to a single space when rendered.

For an example, see:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync-w/[email protected]/msg12548.html

Toward the end of the script source in that email, you'll see this:


echo "EEEEEEE RRRRRR RRRRRR OOOOOO RRRRRR"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "EEEEEE RRRRR RRRRR O O RRRRRR"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "E R R R R O O R R"
echo "EEEEEE R R R R OOOOOO R R"


Whereas in the source html, you'll see this:


       echo &quot;EEEEEEE RRRRRR  RRRRRR   OOOOOO  RRRRRR&quot;<br>
       echo &quot;E       R     R R    R  O      O R     R&quot;<br>
       echo &quot;E       R     R R    R  O      O R     R&quot;<br>
       echo &quot;E       R     R R    R  O      O R     R&quot;<br>
       echo &quot;EEEEEE  RRRRR   RRRRR   O      O RRRRRR&quot;<br>
       echo &quot;E       R R     R R     O      O R R&quot;<br>
       echo &quot;E       R  R    R  R    O      O R  R&quot;<br>
       echo &quot;E       R   R   R   R   O      O R   R&quot;<br>
       echo &quot;EEEEEE  R    R  R    R   OOOOOO  R    R&quot;<br>


Note that the leading spaces and some internal spaces are not rendered.
What you should be seeing in the web page is this:


       echo "EEEEEEE RRRRRR  RRRRRR   OOOOOO  RRRRRR"
       echo "E       R     R R    R  O      O R     R"
       echo "E       R     R R    R  O      O R     R"
       echo "E       R     R R    R  O      O R     R"
       echo "EEEEEE  RRRRR   RRRRR   O      O RRRRRR"
       echo "E       R R     R R     O      O R R"
       echo "E       R  R    R  R    O      O R  R"
       echo "E       R   R   R   R   O      O R   R"
       echo "EEEEEE  R    R  R    R   OOOOOO  R    R"


There are several other places in that email where copy'n'paste of
Unix output containing leading or embedded strings of spaces are
missing the extra spaces, yet in other places, a pre container is
used that *does* preserve the spaces.

Can this missing leading/consecutive spaces problem be fixed?

Thanks.
-- 
        John Van Essen  Univ of Minn. Alumnus  <[email protected]>


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