• Re: Fixing googlegroups styling

    From luser droog@21:1/5 to luser droog on Fri Nov 12 17:57:21 2021
    On Friday, November 12, 2021 at 6:57:10 PM UTC-6, luser droog wrote:
    I'm sure everybody here is using a "real" newsreader. But I just use googlegroups unless I need something fancy that it can't do.
    But a big obvious whale of a shortcoming is GG's inability to properly
    format plain old text. So here's a fix. Get yourself some kind of plugin
    to insert CSS to the page and insert this:

    html-blob{ white-space:pre-wrap; font-family:monospace; }
    br{ display:none; }

    It might be better to only turn off the <br>s that are inside the blobs.

    html-blob > br { display:none; }


    [If it works, you will see the above 2 lines indented as they ought to be.] You could use "pre" instead of "pre-wrap" but then you're at the mercy
    of authors manually wrapping their own lines.

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  • From Phillip Helbig (undress to reply@21:1/5 to luser droog on Sat Nov 13 06:30:24 2021
    In article <[email protected]>,
    luser droog <[email protected]> writes:

    I'm sure everybody here is using a "real" newsreader. But I just use googlegroups unless I need something fancy that it can't do.
    But a big obvious whale of a shortcoming is GG's inability to properly
    format plain old text. So here's a fix. Get yourself some kind of plugin
    to insert CSS to the page and insert this:

    html-blob{ white-space:pre-wrap; font-family:monospace; }
    br{ display:none; }

    [If it works, you will see the above 2 lines indented as they ought to be.] You could use "pre" instead of "pre-wrap" but then you're at the mercy
    of authors manually wrapping their own lines.

    That might make it look OK for you, but then that might actually
    encourage people to post improperly. :-(

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  • From Ross Presser@21:1/5 to luser droog on Mon Nov 22 08:02:43 2021
    On Friday, November 12, 2021 at 7:57:10 PM UTC-5, luser droog wrote:
    I'm sure everybody here is using a "real" newsreader. But I just use googlegroups unless I need something fancy that it can't do.
    But a big obvious whale of a shortcoming is GG's inability to properly
    format plain old text. So here's a fix. Get yourself some kind of plugin
    to insert CSS to the page and insert this:

    html-blob{ white-space:pre-wrap; font-family:monospace; }
    br{ display:none; }

    [If it works, you will see the above 2 lines indented as they ought to be.] You could use "pre" instead of "pre-wrap" but then you're at the mercy
    of authors manually wrapping their own lines.

    This makes every post in the group monospace. Don't like that.

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  • From luser droog@21:1/5 to Ross Presser on Mon Nov 22 16:28:11 2021
    On Monday, November 22, 2021 at 10:02:44 AM UTC-6, Ross Presser wrote:
    On Friday, November 12, 2021 at 7:57:10 PM UTC-5, luser droog wrote:
    I'm sure everybody here is using a "real" newsreader. But I just use googlegroups unless I need something fancy that it can't do.
    But a big obvious whale of a shortcoming is GG's inability to properly format plain old text. So here's a fix. Get yourself some kind of plugin
    to insert CSS to the page and insert this:

    html-blob{ white-space:pre-wrap; font-family:monospace; }
    br{ display:none; }

    [If it works, you will see the above 2 lines indented as they ought to be.] You could use "pre" instead of "pre-wrap" but then you're at the mercy
    of authors manually wrapping their own lines.
    This makes every post in the group monospace. Don't like that.

    Yeah. I thought I liked it at first. But then it got annoying. For some inscrutable reason GG seems to print text in a weird gray so Courier
    becomes really hard for these middle-aged eyes to make out at
    anything less than 125% magnification.

    So I'm not doing the "font-family:monospace;" anymore either.
    Good to have in reserve in case there's ever some ascii art to look at,
    I guess.

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