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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: <screen> tag usage and html output 
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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 22:28:35 -0700
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
> 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</></us
> erinput>
>     </screen>
> 
> that is, with the closing </screen> tag on a new line, by itself.

This is a bug in the document.

> The w3m browsers seems to handle the following case nicely:
> 
> 	<pre>
> 	text here
> 	</pre>

This is a bug in w3m.

> 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)?

We can modify the stylesheet to collapse whitespace before the end
tag, but that's ugly.  The proper fix is to have </screen> on the same
line.  Don't bother sending a PR; I'll fix this.

Thanks,

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org

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