[$ieee-1850] Mangling of diagrams by hypermail in reflector.

Hi Erich,

with regard to the reflector htmlization of text issue that I raised before, I
don't think it is only a matter of using fixed space fonts. If you look at the
source of my test message
http://www.eda.org/ieee-1850/hm/0044.html
you see that ' ' has been substituted for leading spaces in the
text message but not for non leading ones, so the diagram

              _________
             | |
        d ---| |--- q
             | |
        c ---|> |
             |_________|

is being rendered as something like
              _________
             | |
        d ---| |--- q
             | |
        c ---|> |
             |_________|

and the table

t 0123456
c 0001100
rose c 0001000
d xxabxxx <= is not required to be constant over the clock flank
q xxxxbbb

is rendered as

t 0123456
c 0001100
rose c 0001000
d xxabxxx <= is not required to be constant over the clock flank
q xxxxbbb

I don't think this is satisfactory. In this way we lose the ability to
illustrate our points by using diagrams and tables.

Hypermail should perhaps be configured to put all of text messages within a
<pre> environment. In fact it seems you can hack hypermail into doing this by
prepending '--' to your message as the test seems to indicate.

Best Regards, Johan M.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:20:38PM -0700, Erich Marschner wrote:
> - can we change format to use a fixed-space font?
>

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