> Sorry, I forgot to mention that I also added some styles to the <pre> tag:
> style="white-space: normal"
> (see the screenshot on my previous post)

Actually the

style="white-space: normal"

makes the difference, the <div> is not necessary at all!

But I'm not sure that "white-space: normal" is what we want. All manual line breaks in an entry are collapsed and you get just one text block without any new line. See here

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space

I guess we want "white-space: pre-wrap" which keeps the old line breaks.

You can try that out by changing elog.css:

--- a/themes/default/elog.css
+++ b/themes/default/elog.css
@@ -475,6 +475,7 @@ td {

 .messagepre {
   font-family:'lucida console',courier,monospace;
+  white-space:pre-wrap;
 }

and see the effect. If you like it, just keep it. No need to recompile elogd.cxx.

Stefan