Don,
pre-formatted wide text most certainly should
not be wrapped on display. That is the whole point of what
"pre-formatted" or "fixed width" text means - display it exactly as I
give it to you, line breaks and all. The point is that super wide
pre-formatted text
must not affect the display of
other posts in the same thread. Right now it does, and this
is a bug.
In fact any one post, regardless of whether a particular post is well
or poorly formatted, must never break the display or formatting of all
the other posts in a thread.
IMO this is an important correctness and usability criteria, the sort
of thing that OpenACS is usually good about getting right,
and much more important than getting the particular background color
or whatever that someone prefers. But people making look and feel
changes to OpenACS appear to sometimes completely ignore all such UI
correctness concerns, and repeatedly re-introduce this bug. I'd say
that's rather embarassing to the project.
If a user mis-formats a post, it would be very nice to have any easy
way for a Forums admin (or better yet, any one of many trusted and
designated "power users" or "sub-admins" in the community) to fix that
one post. But that's a separate issue.
