delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: cygwin/2017/08/11/12:52:13

X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
:list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id
:date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=Otkwn4aTU0Ps6oFP
hBAfsP2xYP00ZxiUbhmC5dL2jkfEd1+35WlfcqpeFuLeVjxoSCQ7RXakwNbwrtQz
bEh00QmHo59uUTjrs+fElCkDD19pVaVdHQEnAyzA+LD7qYhOX3wI7yjY2cfKlQcQ
ZzqUYj4QSOjolnbs7uGI4Qk2EIg=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
:list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id
:date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=rNwrVQPkdNKp6FLk9vTRBS
4T7lk=; b=Oq0qnrs7JciQ32jN3nyFQCJRiDMI6POpHr8CgORDlA7L7XkLrIwbV2
TsjsHQ0CPLpvRubsVJU4eXkRUMGyCT3AhtIbiElgNSTvDpc7FRLGK0/L00xcdC+9
pmpQAnzz4+TYmadmbpITMOkLy2Eyd18JxlFvFfRzJ8wzMXBbkvuEc=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Virus-Found: No
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=white-space, Hx-languages-length:1997, cooperate, site
X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca
X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=HahkdmM8 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=48vgC7mUAAAA:8 a=CCpqsmhAAAAA:8 a=Mmv8UCXorMfDu4ykfgwA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=nClAInn0eHkA:10 a=sRI3_1zDfAgwuvI8zelB:22 a=w1C3t2QeGrPiZgrLijVG:22 a=ul9cdbp4aOFLsgKbc677:22
Reply-To: Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca
Subject: Re: format=flowed issues [Was: gawk 4.1.4: CR separate char for CRLF files]
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, overseers AT sourceware DOT org
References: <f405bd91-17d8-6728-99be-e76cc4edd41e AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca> <598cf369 DOT c534ca0a DOT c1f7 DOT 9f20 AT mx DOT google DOT com> <e22bad8c-f17f-d9f7-baa3-e64392238fa5 AT gmail DOT com> <20170811132526 DOT GA11704 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de>
From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
Message-ID: <db6afe23-d16c-96ba-e779-a905cdc9f2c8@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:51:53 -0600
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <20170811132526.GA11704@calimero.vinschen.de>
X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfAR/mfvMw90nvgy1aSXcK1zr/WOV8YkpHFXy3qKW+hOSw5Zy7ATelTNfsQEM3wz/UlLmJDEXw101AJ47QyPZqWKA708NY2Guojkj3FE15A61JGKD36nW Xqe08WgiZsK0SwPHk/ZieNT2fMNgYdgICaOvZ/JPZ7ZjfNtd+NoMuJNKgRJ/0DGziGWYkiQobF4KLGRSQ/JxMme77Uzqvbbs9mfC/dymUmGanzYXmcueCSjq
X-IsSubscribed: yes

On 2017-08-11 07:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 11 09:15, David Macek wrote:
>> On 11. 8. 2017 1:59, Steven Penny wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:48:47, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>> Many archives and sites display lines off the right margin instead of allowing
>>>> them to wrap as normal in HTML. Possibly using pre format style without
>>>> horizontal scrollbars instead of just specifying a monospace font style. That
>>>> makes it a site or converter design issue!
>>>
>>> Nope. Wrong. David has been doing this for over 2 years:
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00232.html
>>>
>>> So it is a user issue. The user must hard wrap because Cygwin site does not.
>>
>> """
>> Nope. Wrong. Cygwin site has been doing this for over 2 years:
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00232.html
>>
>> So it is a site issue. The site must wrap because David does not.
>> """
>>
>> In other words, why do you think your argument is correct?  Format=flowed is
>> not a new thing<https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt> and it would be nice
>> if the archives site could display it correctly.  I can cooperate on this
>> with the maintainer(s) if they're interested.  Essentially, one line of CSS
>> should fix it, judging by my quick test.
> 
> The archives on sourceware.org are centrally maintained by the
> sourceware overseers.  You could send your change suggestion to
> overseers AT sourceware DOT org, or you could try to discuss this
> on the Freenode #overseers channel.  Just be a bit patient ;)

Could you please add "white-space: pre-wrap;" in to the style string in the mail
body <pre style="..."> tags, to ensure that white space is preserved but long
lines are wrapped in the window. Please see referenced links to messages using
standard "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed", and preceding
messages in this thread.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019