Re: Fwd: Re: [edict-jmdict] Re: one more question about the new system/interface

[Stuart McGraw <smcg4191@********>]

On 08/03/2010 10:04 PM, Jim Breen wrote:
> On 4 August 2010 13:54, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191@frii.com> wrote:
>> On 08/03/2010 04:48 PM, Jim Breen wrote:
>>> On 4 August 2010 01:29, Jean-Luc L?ger <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org> wrote:
>>>> try it with <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap">
>>>> so that :
>>>> - sequences of whitespaces are preserved
>>>> - word wrap occurs when needed and when a newline is found
>>>
>>> Wow. I'd tried pre-wrap, but obviously didn't get the rubric right.
>>> That works perfectly. I have a test page at
>>> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/test.html  which shows how
>>> well it works.
>>
>> I updated the Arakawa repo to use that css.  Thanks, Jean Luc.
> 
> Installed. Works fine. Font has gone small and blocky in those fields now.
> Possibly not a problem.

If the desire is to maintain formatting (and in a previous message 
JL explicitly mentioned using multiple spaces), than using a mono-
spaced font seems mandatory.  Also, my recollection from a while 
ago is that the CSS spec strongly recommended against using a 
proportional font in a <pre> element.  In the updates I sent, I
actually increased the font size a little.