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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: need hint for adabrowse usage
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:48:09 -0600
Date: 2007-12-18T16:48:09-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fk9igl$c1e$1@jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c598ef51-35ec-4da1-8b8e-2d3d35704577@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com

<JPWoodruff@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:c598ef51-35ec-4da1-8b8e-2d3d35704577@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
...
> --  I don't know how to collect Ada comments that have empty spaces
> --  between them in the way I've formatted these paragraphs.

HTML ignores all strings of spaces -- they all display as a single space.
That's a basic feature of HTML and there isn't much AdaBrowse or any other
tool can do about it. (And I've tried for the ARM formatter!!)

If you're using spaces to get the effect of tabs, it simply isn't possible
in HTML. There are no tabs; the only way to get columnar layout is to format
as a table or to format everything in fixed fonts -- the former is very
difficult to do with unstructured source, and the latter is horribly ugly.

Net-net, you're bumping into limitations of HTML; it doesn't work the same
as plain text.

                                 Randy.





  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-18 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-18 22:27 need hint for adabrowse usage JPWoodruff
2007-12-18 22:48 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2007-12-18 23:17   ` JPWoodruff
2007-12-18 23:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-12-19 23:08   ` Randy Brukardt
2007-12-19 23:08   ` Randy Brukardt
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