Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 04:24:56 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: <screen> tag usage and html output Message-ID: <20010705042455.A99324@hades.hell.gr>
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I have been looking at the doc/ sources since last night here, and I
noticed that <screen> tags are used almost everywhere with SGML code
like the one below:
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add <replaceable>package name</></userinput>
</screen>
that is, with the closing </screen> tag on a new line, by itself.
Looking at the resulting HTML output, this renders in something like:
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class="USERINPUT"><b>pkg_add <tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>package name</i></tt></b></tt>
</pre>
or even worse in other cases with an extra empty line before the
closing </pre> tag. This causes browsers that I have tested (Lynx,
Netscape and w3m) to leave more space below a <screen>'s output than
what they leave above.
The w3m browsers seems to handle the following case nicely:
<pre>
text here
</pre>
But Lynx and Netscape seem to do the `right thing' only when given:
<pre>text here</pre>
Has anybody else seen this in displayed material, when using Netscape?
Is there anything we can do about it, except for changing all
<screen>-occurences to read <screen>...</screen> (without a newline
bfore the closing tag)?
-giorgos
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