pub: plain text README should not look "hideous"

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1081711?v=3" align="left" width="96" height="96"hspace="10"> Issue by jmesserly
Originally opened as dart-lang/sdk#8732

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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Justin Fagnani <justinfagnani@google.com> wrote:
> Here you go, all pubified: http://pub.dartlang.org/packages/appengine_channel
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> (Yes, I need to put change the README to markdown, it looks hideous)
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> Let me know if there are any problems.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1081711?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by jmesserly

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I noticed this too when analyzer_experimental has a non-markdown README

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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There isn't too much we can do here. It needs to be a monospace font because plaintext readme's often use whitespace for alignment. We need to frame it in case it has long lines that would overlap the rest of the pub UI.

Given those constraints, what do you think would look better?

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Added this to the Later milestone.
Removed Type-Defect label.
Added Type-Enhancement label.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1081711?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by jmesserly

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Here are a few ideas:

1. intelligent line wrapping. If you know what's a paragraph you can format better
2. make the default width+font size able to handle typical readme's (it seems to have very few cols right now)
3. add a horizontal scrollbar. maybe a heuristic to tell if the plain text looks line broken or not
4. just pretend it's markdown. it'll probably render okay

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/264967?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by amouravski

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Added Community-StarterBug label.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46275?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by munificent

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Removed Area-Pub label.
Added Area-PubSite label.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2156198?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by kasperl

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Removed this from the Later milestone.
Added Oldschool-Milestone-Later label.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/103167?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by srawlins

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This has been fixed. This can be closed.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2156198?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by kasperl

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Removed Oldschool-Milestone-Later label.

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<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3766663?v=3" align="left" width="48" height="48"hspace="10"> Comment by nicolasgarnier

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This issue has been moved to Github as part of a migration. Please use the Issue on Github going forward: https://github.com/dart-lang/pub-dartlang/issues

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Added MovedToGithub label.