Re: LYNX-DEV Centering <pre> text.

[Alan Cox]

> To properly apply multiple formatting styles onto a body of text you need
> a multi-pass system.  Since Lynx only makes one HTML pass at the incomming
> document it can't do it.  Lynx will never know the widest line before it
> has to apply the centering.

Really you need a different parser. Lynx does layout as it does the scanning,
now that is very very clever but doesn't always work out the best. Really
it should build a "PRE" object and at the </PRE> work out its size. The
second pass then just walks the objects and does layout. That (with recursive
parsing) also does tables

Alan

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