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From: JT (JTibbitt_at_odu.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 17 2009 - 22:05:43 CDT

John,
Thanks for checking it out. It's not a big deal, but it would help.
Jeff

On Mar 16, 2009, at 9:41 PM, John Stone wrote:

>
> Jeff,
> I looked in the raw HTML on that URL you posted (via "view source" in
> firefox), and it appears that all of the spaces are still there in
> the HTML itself, but firefox is collapsing them when it renders the
> page.
> I agree that the behavior is rather odd. I'll have to look and see
> if I can do something to alter the way the web archive is generated.
> Maybe there are some options I can tweak to improve this situation.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:31:09PM -0400, JT wrote:
>> John,
>> When I type something like the following (which appears in this post
>> - http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/13308.html)
>> :
>>
>> 1 4
>> \ /
>> 2 ---------- 3
>>
>> There should be a large number of spaces between the 1 and 4 on the
>> first line and between the \ and / on the second line. The above
>> diagram represents 4 atoms connected as 1-2-3-4, except they connect
>> in a U-shaped pattern, with the 1 (top left), 2 (bottom middle-left),
>> 3 (bottom middle-right) and 4 (top right). I typed my message using
>> the spacebar to generate the spaces, but when I go to the VMD-L page
>> (linked above), it displays no spaces. I checked it using 3
>> different
>> browsers. Am I doing something incorrectly by posting spaces like
>> this? I'm not quite following you when you speak of the 'HTML
>> version' versus 'actual count of spaces'. I was hoping that other
>> people's web browsers would allow them to see my intended number of
>> spaces.
>> Perplexed,
>> Jeff Tibbitt
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 16, 2009, at 6:49 PM, John Stone wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Jeff,
>>> Are you referring to the way the messages display in the HTML
>>> version, or in terms of the actual count of spaces? The HTML-ized
>>> version will likely display in a proportional font on most browsers,
>>> so this may be (part of?) the problem. I don't think the actual
>>> text
>>> of the messages is being reformatted in any significant way.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> John Stone
>>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:58:01PM -0400, JT wrote:
>>>> Hi. I've noticed in the VMD-L archives that messages have blank
>>>> spaces truncated. Is there a way to place tags in the message to
>>>> keep
>>>> that from happening?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jeff T.
>>>
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>
> --
> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078