[Newspoetry] Re: Newspoetry digest, Vol 1 #710 - 3 msgs

[gillespie william k]

I am very interested to know what in the HTML would change the way a
stanza break appeared between lynx and a graphical browser. Lack of
closing paragraph tags?

Whatever it is, Dreamweaver has a great global search-and-replace feature
so it's probably easily fixable.


On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, John Wason wrote:

> At 06:26 AM 07/21/2001 -0500, newspoetry-request at lists.groogroo.com wrote:
>
> >Message: 1
> >Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:59:30 -0500
> >From: Joe Futrelle <futrelle at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> >To: NEWSpoetry <newspoetry at lists.groogroo.com>
> >Reply-To: Joe Futrelle <futrelle at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
> >Subject: [Newspoetry] lynx problems
> >
> >Hi fokes,
> >
> >It has come to my attention that stanza breaks (i.e. paragraph breaks)
> >in certain poems aren't showing up properly in lynx (a text-only web
> >browser).  This is likely due to sloppy HTML coding on my part; I'll
> >try to fix every such poem from 2000-2001.
> >
> >--
> >Joe Futrelle
> >editor-on-chief
> >Newspoetry . com
>
>
> I'm the one who brought this to your attention, Joe, and I'd hate to see you
> do this much work.  Certainly don't do it on my account.  Probably hardly
> anyone but a few of us diehard Prairienet folks still uses lynx, anyway.  It
> would be nice if you could put the paragraph breaks that would show up in
> lynx in FUTURE newspoems, but I certainly wouldn't want you to have to go
> back and re-code all the old ones for the benefit of just a few.  Thank you
> for your willingness to do so, though.
>
> John
>
>
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