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icon4.gif   THREAD DISPLAY = sucks up coded spaces, posted by Steve Jones on Fri Aug 6 22:35:10 2004 
    icon2.gif   Re: THREAD DISPLAY = sucks up coded spaces, posted by Stefan Ritt on Sun Aug 8 16:25:09 2004 
       icon14.gif   Re: THREAD DISPLAY = sucks up coded spaces, posted by Steve Jones on Tue Aug 10 20:11:38 2004 
Message ID: 657     Entry time: Sun Aug 8 16:25:09 2004     In reply to: 656     Reply to this: 658
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Bug report  OS: All  ELOG Version: 2.5.4 
Subject: Re: THREAD DISPLAY = sucks up coded spaces 
> I was trying to do some hard coded spaces using:
> 
> Thread display = For: $Date for Shutdown.   $DataCenter:
> $short summary. Coordinator: $Shutdown Coordinator.
> 
> The spacing actually works mthe first time, but upon going back into editing
> the config file, the coded spaces are gone, replaced with real spaces, and
> when saved all real multiple spaces are, as one would expect, ignored.  The
> spacing reverts back to normal.
> 
> I tried other html tags but these show up as literals.

I fixed that in revision 1.448. The problem also showed up even in normal
logbook entry displays and in replies (before this fix, the   in this text
whould not have shown up). Get the new version from CVS.
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