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Date:      Sun, 27 Sep 1998 20:14:05 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        groggy@iname.com, freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: lynx & PRE
Message-ID:  <19980927201405.A21471@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980926045440.1969B-100000@abc.xyz.net>; from "groggy@iname.com" on Sat Sep 26 05:21:37 GMT 1998
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980926045440.1969B-100000@abc.xyz.net>

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In the last episode (Sep 26), groggy@iname.com said:
> since lynx cannot utilize FRAMES, this destroys all capabilities of
> designing well formatted HTML pages of mixed graphics & text.  lynx
> relied on embedding things within PRE block for formatting without
> frames.

You can always put the lynx-friendly stuff in a <noframes> container.

> for example, try this with lynx 2.8:
> 
> [G1] text1   [G2] text2
> [G1] text 1  [G2] text2
> [G1] text  1 [G2] text2
>
> with lynx 2.7, this was no problem.
> i could have 2 perfectly aligned columns.
> now, this is impossible.
> 
> you cannot say:
> 
> <PRE>
> <IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G1]"> text1   <IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G2]"> text2
> <IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G1]"> text 1  <IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G2]"> text2
> <IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G1]"> text  1 <IMG SRC="g.gif" ALT="[G2]"> text2
> </PRE>
> 
> any longer.

I just pasted this into a file and it looks just like your quoted text
above; using lynx 2.8.1dev.29 (20 Sep 1998).  What do you see on your
console, and what version of lynx are you using?

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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