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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: <screen> tag usage and html output
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I have been looking at the doc/ sources since last night here, and I
noticed that <screen> tags are used almost everywhere with SGML code
like the one below:

    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add <replaceable>package name</></userinput>
    </screen>

that is, with the closing </screen> tag on a new line, by itself.

Looking at the resulting HTML output, this renders in something like:

    <pre class="SCREEN">
	<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class="USERINPUT"><b>pkg_add <tt
    class="REPLACEABLE"><i>package name</i></tt></b></tt>
    </pre>

or even worse in other cases with an extra empty line before the
closing </pre> tag.  This causes browsers that I have tested (Lynx,
Netscape and w3m) to leave more space below a <screen>'s output than
what they leave above.

The w3m browsers seems to handle the following case nicely:

	<pre>
	text here
	</pre>

But Lynx and Netscape seem to do the `right thing' only when given:

	<pre>text here</pre>

Has anybody else seen this in displayed material, when using Netscape?

Is there anything we can do about it, except for changing all
<screen>-occurences to read <screen>...</screen> (without a newline
bfore the closing tag)?

-giorgos

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