In the MHonArc mail archive there are often super-long lines, which
would be wrapped to the window width when viewing in most mail
clients, but when viewed in a web browser they appear as long single
lines which take a lot of left-to-right scrolling to read them.
For example: <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/renum/current/
msg00060.html>
This appears to be due to MHonArc's use of the PRE tag, which tells
the web browser to display the literal text exactly as given, in a
fixed-width font.
The MHonArc FAQ suggests a couple of solutions to this problem:
Can long lines be wrapped in converted messages?
<http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/mime.html#lineclip>
Can the <PRE> tags be removed from converted messages?
<http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/mime.html#removepre>
Can we consider using either of these options?
Using "maxwidth=xxx" would solve this problem, though of course it
opens the debate about what's the right value for "xxx".
Using "nonfixed" has the nice property of letting the web browser
wrap the text to the window width, but might break ASCII-art
diagrams. Perhaps that could be fixed by making the default font a
fixed-width one (e.g. via style sheet) and using the "keepspace"
option, which would give us monospaced text while still allowing the
web browser to wrap the text to the current window width.
Stuart Cheshire <cheshire(_at_)apple(_dot_)com>
* Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Inc.
* www.stuartcheshire.org
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