["Roger Padvorac" <roger@skilledwright.com>] sizing of en faq page on http://www.gnupg.org

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:55:17 +0100, Michael Nahrath said:

> 'pre' (PREformatted text) absolutely prevents line-breaking inside its
> content.

Then we need to explain, that it is meant as just one line.  PRE
allows us to show exactly how it should be typed.

> And there are long lines of text marked up by 'pre' (questions 4.12, 5.7).

> Usually only the reformatted lines are too long for the screen and the rest
> of the text breaks normaly to fit the browser window. But not if it all
> belongs to a table :-(

> Solutions:
> - don't contain everything in <table> (hardly aplicable to the current
>   site ...)
> - don't use <pre>. 
>   Rather use <code> for program output and <kbd> for program input.
>   Linebreaks will be set by the browser automatically.

What are the properties of KBD?  Does the browser give some
indication whether there is a real line break.

> - use <pre> but care to break long lines manually.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner