0000101: mantis squeezes multiple spaces - Austin Group Issue Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000101	Aardvark Bugs	Aardvark Mk III	public	2009-06-30 08:31	2009-07-02 19:15

Reporter	geoffclare	Assigned To	msbrown
Priority	normal	Severity	Editorial	Type	Error
Status	Closed	Resolution	Accepted

Name	Geoff Clare
Organization	The Open Group
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Summary	0000101: mantis squeezes multiple spaces
Description	This is only a minor issue, but if there is an easy fix it would be worth doing. When there are multiple non-leading spaces in the description (and, I assume, the desired action) text, Mantis displays a single space when viewed in the web browser. The spaces are intact in the email notification, so my guess is they are preserved in the database but squeezed during the display process. This will affect any quotes from tables or tagged paragraphs. Here's an example: first column second column row1 column1 row1 column2 r2c1 r2c2 When displayed in a web browser, I expect the first column will line up but the second will not.
Desired Action	Arrange for the second column in: first column second column row1 column1 row1 column2 r2c1 r2c2 to line up when displayed by Mantis.
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geoffclare 2009-06-30 08:35 manager bugnote:0000139	Obviously I hadn't thought the issue through completely. Even if the spaces are preserved, the second column still won't line up in the browser because of the use of a proportional font. However, I think the fix would still be worth doing as preserving the spaces will at least provide some visual separation of the columns. (You could also consider displaying the Description and Desired Action text in monospace font.)

msbrown 2009-07-01 20:56 manager bugnote:0000146 Last edited: 2009-07-02 19:08	I'm adding some test text here for my own clarification: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 Every word is separated by two spaces. This line starts with two spaces. Three spaces separate these words.

msbrown 2009-07-02 19:15 manager bugnote:0000149	I have fixed this by allowing the HTML marker "pre" to work in the Description, Desired Action, and Note fields. It works by surrounding the text to be monospaced by these markers as in this text is monospaced and this text is not.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2009-06-30 08:31	geoffclare	New Issue
2009-06-30 08:31	geoffclare	Name	=> Geoff Clare
2009-06-30 08:31	geoffclare	Organization	=> The Open Group
2009-06-30 08:35	geoffclare	Note Added: 0000139
2009-06-30 14:01	msbrown	Assigned To	=> msbrown
2009-06-30 14:01	msbrown	Status	New => Under Review
2009-07-01 20:56	msbrown	Note Added: 0000146
2009-07-02 19:08	msbrown	Note Edited: 0000146
2009-07-02 19:15	msbrown	Note Added: 0000149
2009-07-02 19:15	msbrown	Status	Under Review => Closed
2009-07-02 19:15	msbrown	Resolution	Open => Accepted