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Kiss All

19 Oct 2004 19 Oct '04

3:50 a.m.

This is a very big problem for me. I often copy & paste stuff into wiki page using tag <pre> </pre> to maitain the original looking. But the long line cannot be wrapped into several shorter lines. The final results are very ugly. How can I achieve word wrap within <pre></pre>? Thanks in advance. -- Be good....

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NSK

19 Oct 19 Oct

4:05 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to enable word wrap of long line within <pre> </pre>?

On Monday 18 October 2004 22:50, Kiss All wrote:

How can I achieve word wrap within <pre></pre>?

If you word-wrap a preformatted text, then it is not preformatted anymore :) MediaWiki has a small problem that causes preformatted text to not being selected if it is longer than its "box" in monobook. If this is your concern, then copy-paste the preformatted text from the HTML source code. If in general you want to apply some wordwrap in a preformatted text, then you need either to find a utility that does this job or write a shell script (assuming you work under the GNU operating system), or apply a wordwrap in a word processor and then copy-paste the resultant text inside a pre tag. -- NSK Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org Project Manager of http://maatworks.wikinerds.org

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Kiss All

6:19 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to enable word wrap of long line within <pre> </pre>?

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:05:23 +0300, NSK <nsk2(a)wikinerds.org> wrote:

On Monday 18 October 2004 22:50, Kiss All wrote:

How can I achieve word wrap within <pre></pre>?

If you word-wrap a preformatted text, then it is not preformatted anymore :)

I think it is feasible or even common to format something in several steps. Why not add just one word-wrap formatting phase for <pre> <pre/>? Many first-time users of wikipedia tend to copy and paste something into wiki page but usually get a mess. It would be nice to support this intuitive usage of wikipedia somehow especially when there is no import functionality in mediawiki now. The current situation seems to be : you have to type from the scratch or manually format existing materials to add page content into wikipedia. I am dreaming we could copy& paste or import existing html files after several clicks.

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NSK

6:54 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to enable word wrap of long line within <pre> </pre>?

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 01:19, Kiss All wrote:

I am dreaming we could copy& paste or import existing html files

This would increase the number of copyright violations to the infinity :) -- NSK Admin of http://portal.wikinerds.org Project Manager of http://www.nerdypc.org Project Manager of http://www.adapedia.org Project Manager of http://maatworks.wikinerds.org

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Jamie Bliss

20 Oct 20 Oct

3:34 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to enable word wrap of long line within <pre> </pre>?

I've actually found that the <code> tag seems to accomplish this, though it is an abuse of it's purpose. If you really need wrapping in legit HTML, replace double spaces with  , and line breaks with <br />, and any other HTML entities. Then place the whole thing within <font> tags, like <font face="Courier"> (Courier, and Courier New, are fixed width fonts) On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:50:46 -0500, Kiss All <kissall(a)gmail.com> wrote:

This is a very big problem for me. I often copy & paste stuff into wiki page using tag <pre> </pre> to maitain the original looking. But the long line cannot be wrapped into several shorter lines. The final results are very ugly. How can I achieve word wrap within <pre></pre>? Thanks in advance. -- Be good.... _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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