frontpage 2000 discussion web-pls help!

[Fayez]

i made a discussion group using the wizard in
FP2k...everythins fine except for the text formatting of
the articles/posts/msgs. the line breaks dont come.
for eg: if the user types the following text in the
scrolling text box in the post page:
abcd
efgh
ijk

when we read that post (by clicking it from the contents
page)...everything is fine except that the line breaks are
gone and instead the msg appears as:
abcd efgh ijk (i.e all in one line)

how can i fix it? every help would be appreciated
thanks

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Set the <PRE> for your DW posts:

Open your Discussion Web in FrontPage.
Open the file named Discussion_post.htm, where Discussion is the name of the Discussion folder that you specified when you
originally ran the Discussion Web Wizard.
Switch to the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) view.
Locate the line of code that begins with the following code:
<!--webbot bot="Discussion"
Locate the s-article-format parameter, and then change the value to the following value:
s-article-format="HTML/PRE"
Save, and then close the page.

If you use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to apply a theme to your Discussion Web, you can modify the styles of the Preformatted
Discussion to automatically use the fonts and style from your theme. To do this, follow these steps:

[Format] [Theme] [Modify Text] [More Text Style]
and Add the new style for the <pre> tag
[New] - enter "pre" - (w/o quotes) in the selector
[Font] - select a fixed spaced font (say Time Roman or Courier New)
[OK] [OK] [OK]
Then Save as a New Theme name

PS
Only a fixed space font should be entered for a <pre> style
NOTE: This formatting change applies to all <pre> tags in your Discussion Web, whether or not they are used for Discussion posts.


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| i made a discussion group using the wizard in
| FP2k...everythins fine except for the text formatting of
| the articles/posts/msgs. the line breaks dont come.
| for eg: if the user types the following text in the
| scrolling text box in the post page:
| abcd
| efgh
| ijk
|
| when we read that post (by clicking it from the contents
| page)...everything is fine except that the line breaks are
| gone and instead the msg appears as:
| abcd efgh ijk (i.e all in one line)
|
| how can i fix it? every help would be appreciated
| thanks