From: Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen (crispen@hiwaay.net)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 17:01:31 CST
Tom von Alten said on Tuesday, January 16, 2001 at 1:10:06 PM:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Crispen, Bob wrote:
>> I suggest we add a 'word wrap column' for pages that generated with
>> 'showhtml = Off'. As soon as a word crosses the specified column, we
>> enter a newline tag before that word.
Er, actually I didn't, but I concur.
> Are you sure we want to do this? I don't like horizontal scrolling
> either, but there is often good reason for having long lines - such
> as quoting long URLs. Arbitrarily wrapping things to a given line
> length is not necessarily an enhancement.
> Dealing properly with MIME-encoded "soft" returns in text would
> probably be a good thing, but simply deciding that lines should be
> XX characters or shorter probably would not.
If we let the admin decide, this could be a good thing in <pre> mode.
One thing to watch out for is <pre> sections inside HTML text, which I
don't think should be wrapped. I suggest the logic be:
if SHOWHTML is false and PRE_LINE_LENGTH is non-zero
scan for the first whitespace character in the line
if the first whitespace character isn't a newline
if the first whitespace char position >= PRE_LINE_LENGTH-1
replace the whitespace character with a newline
If we default PRE_LINE_LENGTH to 0, it'll continue to work the way it
does now unless the site admin chooses to enable long line word wrap
by setting it to some non-zero number.
-- Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen crispen at hiwaay dot net It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson