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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada

RE: question about nowar forum

From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: flora-admin-help_-at-_flora.org
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:40:13 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Paul Gross wrote:

> There is no need to get into a back and forth on this, but here are my
> thoughts on the matter.

  Replying only in the forum so that others considering running different
archive-viewing software will have thought of these issues.

> The other suggestion would be to use a fixed width font, such as courier, so
> that ascii-art and tables will work without defeating the browser word wrap.

  Changing the font outside of <pre> tags still needs to deal with the
space issue.  HTML ignores spaces, while ASCII-art uses space characters
to position the curser.  You can then substitute every space character
with a &nbsp; which could start to deal with that although I've never seen
this quite work properly.

  End-of-line markers would also need to be substituted with <BR> tags,
and not <P> tags or the vertical spacing will be incorrect.

> Thanks and we totally appreciate flora hosting  the list.

  If a different version of the viewer is used, please post about it here 
so others may consider it as well.

---
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
 Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or
 electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than 
 politicians should be bought.  -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/

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