GNU bug report logs - #16450
24.3.50; HTML manual on line has all text centered instead of left-justified

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:33:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: help

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 16450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16450: 24.3.50; HTML manual on line has all text centered instead of left-justified
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:25:06 +0200

> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:31:58 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> Anyway, If I look at the GNU manuals online, such as this one:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html, and I choose "HTML
> - with one web page per node.", and I start visiting nodes, I see that
> the individual lines of text are generally centered, instead of being
> left-justified.

This seems to be browser-specific.  I see the problem in (an old
version of) Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox, nor in eww.

Perhaps some CSS expert could take a look at the stylesheets used by
that manual, and see why it has such an effect.
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