[Mailman-Developers] configuration option `info'

Barry A. Warsaw bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.Va.US (Barry A. Warsaw)
Wed, 20 May 1998 17:02:51 -0400 (EDT)


[Just one for the to-do list... -BAW]

The help for the `info' config option says:

    The text will be treated as html except that newlines newlines
    will be translated to <br> - so you can use links, preformatted
    text, etc, but don't put in carriage returns except where you mean
    to separate paragraphs. And review your changes - bad html (like
    some unterminated HTML constructs) can prevent display of the
    entire listinfo page.

Other that the typo (`newlines' twice in the first sentence), it would 
actually be better if a more texinfo like approach was used.  Instead
of hard newlines being translated into <br>, translate *blank* lines
(e.g. two newlines) into <br>.  That way the text inside the tiny
type-in box could be formatted a little easier.

-Barry