From Newsgroup: comp.lang.postscript

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.
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From Newsgroup: comp.lang.postscript

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 Newsgroup: comp.lang.postscript

In article <14b829dd-b431-461b-8f8b-440945081b6en@googlegroups.com>,
luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> 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 Newsgroup: comp.lang.postscript

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 Newsgroup: comp.lang.postscript

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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