[pmwiki-users] copy-paste into wiki page

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:50:46PM -0600, Webster, MaryJo wrote:
> I'm relatively new to pmwiki, so forgive me if this has already been
> answered. I've searched the list archives looking to see if anyone else has
> encountered this, but didn't find anything. 
>  
> I've run into several occasions where I've copied a block of text from an
> email or from another program and when it's displayed on the wiki page the
> text does not "wrap" appropriately. To read all of it, you have to scroll
> across to the right, far beyond the typical borders of the page. 

Sounds like you're running into the preformat-whitespace scenario.
If your email has any whitespace (tabs or spaces) at the beginning of a
line, that line is taken to be preformatted text, and in the HTML, will
be wrapped in a <pre> tag.  Preformatted text is not wrapped.
Is the text displayed in a monospaced font (such as Courier)?
What does the HTML look like?  (Do a "view source" of the page)
 
If you are having a problem with whitespace, go through and remove any
spaces from the start of the lines, after you've pasted it into your
PmWiki edit form.  That should fix it up.

Kathryn Andersen
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