Re: <br>'s in format=flowed

[Earl Hood <earl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On June 3, 2005 at 00:11, East Coast Coder wrote:

> As far as I can tell, if a message is in text/plain; format=flowed,
> Mhonarc still preserves the SR line endings by wrapping the message in
> <pre></pre>.

Not (entirely) correct.  Please provide example message.

<pre> will be used in format=flowed if the message dictates it.
For example, if HR lines exist, <pre> is used for them.

> Seemingly, this shouldn't be necessary - that is the whole point of
> format=flowed, to allow SR's.  Is there a switch to tell mhonarc to
> only <pre> wrap text/plain fixed, but to *not* wrap flowed (instead
> just dropping SR's and converting HR's to <br>'s).

I think you have some bad sample messages you are looking at.
Note, just because something is tagged as format=flowed does not
mean flowed sematics are actually in effect.  For example, the
message may contain no soft-returns.

> As an aside, it seems that format=flowed alone is pretty rare - most
> MUA's either send text/html as well (which mhonarc prefers) or
> text/plain fixed.  Is this correct?

No.  I believe Mozilla-based MUAs commonly use format=flowed.

--ewh