[WEB4LIB] formatting paragraphs in output when using Frontpage.

[Araby Greene]

To preserve line breaks in a FrontPage 2000/2002 Discussion, edit the HTML 
code in the disc1_post.htm file (substitute your discussion name for "disc1" 
in file name). BTW, FP 2002 does preserve paragraph breaks in the Comments 
field, but not line breaks.

Find the line that includes:
<!-- webbot bot="Discussion"
in this line, change:
s-article-format="HTML/BR" (in FP2002, or "HTML" (?) in FP2000)
to read
s-article-format="HTML/PRE"

New comments from this point on should be preformatted with line breaks. If 
you want to change the font used in the PRE tag, go to the MS Knowledge Base 
article Q328495:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328495 

I haven't used the Discussion bot for a long time but tried this method on a 
test web and it did work. The confirmation page did not display the breaks 
properly, but it accesses the innards of the FPweb (_vti_bin/shtml.dll) and is 
not directly editable. The Knowledge base article also tells you how to change 
the font used for the PRE tag, which is applied to the entire post.

-araby

_______________________________________
Araby Greene
Web Development Librarian
Getchell Library/322
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
araby at unr.edu
http://www.library.unr.edu




Quoting Vinod Scaria <vinodscaria at eth.net>:

> Hi folks@ Web4Lib
> 
> I was trying to put up a discussion form on our medical library gateway
> website. I had used Frontpage, and used the Discussion Form Handler to
> handle the inputs.The host is enabled with Frontpage extensions [FPEs]
> 
> The problem is the output comes out to be a mess. I donot get the output in
> paragraphs. I tried to use different input fields for each paragraph and
> also tried to use spacers and breaks, but the output looks the same.I had
> similar problems with other websites also eg:
> http://virtualmed.netfirms.com/_disc4/00000002.htm
> 
> Does anybody know whether one can get the output as discrete paragraphs
> when
> using the discussion form handler.Also can I upload HTML files and get
> things handled by the discussion form handler?
> 
> Please help me out !!
> 
> Vinod Scaria
> Curator: MedLib-Medical library Gateway
> http://www.medlib.netfirms.com
> 
> 


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