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Date:      Mon, 02 Jul 2001 02:37:39 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Jens Schweikhardt <Jens.Schweikhardt@marconi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-docs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Handbook rendering
Message-ID:  <3B4040E3.9C0F1FEF@urx.com>
References:  <20010702093044.A297@bk4957.de.marconicomms.com>

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Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> 
> hello, world\n
> 
> the handbook rendering has gained a lot of white space recently, it
> would seem. Looking at e.g.
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/policies-encumbered.html
> with netscape communicator 4.76 (as found on the WC CDs in the package)
> on a FreeBSD 4.2-R system gives a rendering where numbered list have the
> numbers on a line by themselves, e.g. it looks approximately like so:
> 
> 1.
>   Any file which is interpreted or ...
> 
> 2.
>   Any file with a license more restrictive than BSD or GNU is encumbered.
> 
> 3.
>   A file which contains downloadable binary data ...
> 
> The strange thing is that if I download the file (i.e.
> file:policies-encumbered.html instead of http://www.freebsd.org/...) it
> does not show the line breaks after the numbers. Can anyone reproduce this?
> Possibly relevant info: I have to use an http proxy to get through the
> company firewall.

I noticed it in chapter 4 and it was a version I build and used KDE-2
konqueror to view. The bulleted text seems to have an automatic break
added after the bullet.

Kent

> 
> Regards,
> 
>         Jens
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