On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:40:42PM +1200, Sean wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I recently asked for and explained the virtues of a " -dump-clean" 
> option, particularly with respect to preserving the independence of 
> html-tables.  I have since then discovered an even more disturbing 
> issue: a serious failure in the integrity of dumped table-data ....(but 
> applying equally to view-mode).
> 
> An example of the problem is attached:
>                                    the file v1.html is dumped into v1.txt
> 
> I can reproduce this errant output every time -- indeed, I cannot 
> produce proper output.  So others may like to try and see what results 
> they get? 
> 
> Pay particular attention to the bottom right-hand corner of the 
> table-data for the most blatant aggregation of the corruption.  It 
> appears that Elinks REDUCES all blocks of successive-blank-lines to just 
> a SINGLE-BLANK-LINE in the rightmost-column only, thus throwing it out 
> of alignment with the rest of the table.
> 
> This looks to me like a case of catastrophic results from a trivial bug 
> that is easily fixed (perhaps?).
> Sean
> 

ELinks interprets <br><br>...<br> as one <br>. I suppose that pages look better
with that feature. If you want tables to be formatted properly make them
something like this:
<table>
<tr><td>111</td><td>222</td><td>333</td>...</tr>
</table>

Every cell enclosed by <td></td>.

Witek
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