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The issues.guix.gnu.org is hard to read in emacs-w3m.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>, 43166 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, guix.vits <at> disroot.org, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#43166: The issues.guix.gnu.org is hard to read in emacs-w3m.
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 15:23:00 -0400

Hi,

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> Hi Maxim,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:
>>
>>> Earlier, I wrote:
>>>> However, I've noticed that in Dillo with CSS disabled, generating a
>>>> 'pre' for each line makes the line spacing larger than would be ideal.
>>>> It seems that some vertical padding or margins are added around each
>>>> 'pre'.  It's likely that many browsers do this in their default styling
>>>> for 'pre'.  With this in mind, it would perhaps be better to wrap a
>>>> single 'pre' around each message.  Then you could either (1) leave the
>>>> lines as 'span's and add a raw CR-LF after each line (which would make
>>>> the HTML source code more readable) or (2) change the 'span's to 'div's
>>>> as in your proposed patch.
>>>
>>> Actually, I just found by experimentation that option (2) above doesn't
>>> work well in either Lynx or Dillo.  Option (1) works well in the simple
>>> browsers I've tried so far, which are Lynx, Dillo, Netsurf, and Eww.
>>>
>>>        Mark
>>
>> Friendly ping; it seems not much is missing to close this issue? :-).
>
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43159> is still essentially unreadable in
> Emacs Eww and Lynx, as well as Dillo when CSS is disabled, because there
> are many missing line breaks.

OK, thanks for the update, Mark.

Maxim

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