[pmwiki-users] Word wrap problem

[Sivakatirswami]

All this discussion is excellent,

and let me re-insert the original issue, so that it stays in focus for 
those who missed it.

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We want a naive user to be able to paste in email dialogue,
which invariably has any number of lines-paras, of quote & reply levels
which convert to white space at the beginning of lines in PMWiki
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and it wraps.

KISS is good: so, it's looking like

PM's solution: wiki admin can opts to wrap all <pre> text at some 
pre-determined char width is simple enough.

But, one has to admit: it was not the intent of the user to format any 
text.
The email model was to distinquish quoted text from reply text using 
indent marks
  and there is something to be said for maintaining that,
since it helps preserve the original email dialog-conversation format.

SKTS





On Apr 19, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:23:05PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>> None of this really solves the problem, which is:
>>
>> *It is the end user towards who sets the line width.* Implicitly, via
>> the width of the browser window.
>
> This isn't universally true.  I've seen lots of (commercial,
> award-winning) sites that fix the horizontal width of the display
> to a value such as 760 pixels or something such that the width of
> the browser window doesn't matter.
>
> I'm not saying this is good design, I'm only pointing out that there
> are web administrators who don't care if the width of the page
> ends up being slightly larger than the width of the browser window.
>
> Clearly the existing default in PmWiki sometimes forces a
> horizontal width that doesn't look good in any browser, which is why
> word wrap of preformatted text makes sense for some sites.
>
>> The *only* thing that I could think of would be a wrap-with-indent
>> solution. I.e. whip up some CSS that makes sure that the indent is
>> preserved when the line is forced to wrap.
>
> Sorry, there's a certain monopoly browser that doesn't support this.
>
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