New look for archives

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Mon Mar 12 02:18:00 PDT 2007


Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>> I tried it, but it wraps code, too, goofing it all up.
> 
> Not to mention that:
> - it would destroy indentation as it did before, unless you 
> explicitly convert leading spaces, multiple spaces and tabs to 
>  
> 
> - it would create a mess of line breaks in strange places for 
> some of us, who may be using lower-resolution displays or a 
> large font.
> 
> But a good course of action, at least IMO, would be handle 
> format=flowed messages by setting word wrap and using explicit 
> <br> for the hard line breaks.

I did it a simpler way - I just put the line wrapping in the converter 
program.

> BTW I noticed a bug - it fails to replace & with &amp;.  As well 
> as being just one cause of the many validation errors, it's 
> bound to alter what some people wrote, including here.

Oops.



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