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Re: [Groff] Lesson: e-mail address coding in documents.


From: Eddie Maddox
Subject: Re: [Groff] Lesson: e-mail address coding in documents.
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 06:25:23 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > <> and ().  The e-mail addresses are there, but like this:
> > <address@hidden>, rather than this: <a
> > href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>.
> 
> > Both Lynx and Netscape tried to figure out what to do with the <>
> > and () style and gave up.  Hence the empty spaces when it rendered
> > the page for viewing.
> > 
> > Lesson: Do not use <> or () to bracket stuff without checking the
> > results you get.  [] seems to work so you'll notice I used them in a
> > couple places where appropriate.
> 
> This is quite unfortunate IMHO since using <> or () is the usual way
> to indicate email addresses in plain text.  I'm very weak in HTML --

1. I know. I figured you might say this, too. But I didn't have any cute
solutions so I didn't bring this up. I did use [] in a couple places where
you had used <> (FTP URL format for the Groff source). So maybe that
helps. 

2. I'm new at HTML, too. But, I don't do C. Did that many years ago, but
I'm not that good at it.

> maybe there is something more verbatim than <pre>...</pre> available?

I wondered that, too. I don't know. So I just marked up the works in HTML. 

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Eddie Maddox
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