[cl-who-devel] Unexpected behavior of pre directive with indented output

Sat Dec 29 18:48:25 UTC 2007

Hi,

I ran into some unexpected behavior this morning when using the pre 
directive. Here is an example:

(with-html-output (*standard-output* nil :prologue nil :indent t)
  (:body
   (:pre "This block of text
should all be justified to the left
edge of the window when rendered
by a browser, even if the HTML itself
is indented, no?")))

What is generated is the following:

<body>
  <pre>
    This block of text
should all be justified to the left
edge of the window when rendered
by a browser, even if the HTML itself
is indented, no?
  </pre>
</body>

Which will "indent" the first line unexpectedly, as well as pre-pending 
an unexpected line break. I realize that I can turn off indenting in my 
output, but this seems inelegant. It seems like the pre directive needs 
to be handled as a special case.

--Jeff