From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 128146 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2017 16:51:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 128096 invoked by uid 89); 11 Aug 2017 16:51:59 -0000 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 Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:51:57 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id gDAAdOSCRI8mCgDABdfCnL; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:51:55 -0600 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.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: format=flowed issues [Was: gawk 4.1.4: CR separate char for CRLF files] To: cygwin@cygwin.com, overseers@sourceware.org References: <598cf369.c534ca0a.c1f7.9f20@mx.google.com> <20170811132526.GA11704@calimero.vinschen.de> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:51:00 -0000 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfAR/mfvMw90nvgy1aSXcK1zr/WOV8YkpHFXy3qKW+hOSw5Zy7ATelTNfsQEM3wz/UlLmJDEXw101AJ47QyPZqWKA708NY2Guojkj3FE15A61JGKD36nW Xqe08WgiZsK0SwPHk/ZieNT2fMNgYdgICaOvZ/JPZ7ZjfNtd+NoMuJNKgRJ/0DGziGWYkiQobF4KLGRSQ/JxMme77Uzqvbbs9mfC/dymUmGanzYXmcueCSjq X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-08/txt/msg00120.txt.bz2 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 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 
 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.

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

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