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[Mark K <address@concealed>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:41:33 -0800
"Allen, Pat" <address@concealed> wrote:

> Hello -
> 
> I've just upgraded to 5.3.4 in anticipation of migrating from Lyris
> to Sympa. I've created my first two lists on the server and they both
> have reasonable descriptions.
> 
> When I display this using the browser, it appears as if the contents
> of the info file is simply written out on one line which runs off the
> right end of the browser window. If I edit the info file and manually
> introduce line breaks to get around this, the lines are centered
> which makes things look bad. I don't want to have to manually edit
> each and every one of my info files since this runs into problems
> when users resize the fonts in their browsers.
> 
> Is there a fix for this? Or is the fix to use definitions that fit on
> one line?
> 
> Thanks!
> Pat
> 
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> Pat Allen (address@concealed & http://www.mbari.org/staff/pat)
> Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
> 7700 Sandholdt Rd, Moss Landing, CA 95039
> (voice) 831-775-1724; (fax) 831-775-1620
> 
> 
> 
> 
In my migration script to migrate lists from mailman to sympa, I use the
wrap() function from the Text::Wrap perl module to make sure the
description is line wrapped.  I don't know anything about Lyris, so I
don't know how you are performing your migration, but just make sure
you manually apply some line wrapping to list descriptions as you
migrate them.

-- 
Mark K