Changing from XML to HTML in the prefs did the trick !
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> From: "Bare Bones Software Technical Support" <support@barebones.com> > Date: May 6, 2010 5:40:36 PM EDT > To: "Matt Martini" <matt.martini@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: (Case 180672) Bug Report: v9.5 (2740) - HTML Formatting Utility Broken > > you wrote: > [...] >> It seems that the utility function to format HTML is no longer working properly. When this simple html document >> (cleaned up from a much longer original) is process by Utility->Format->Gentle Hierarchical (or Hierarchical or Document Skeleton) >> the closing tags are not un-indented to line up with with the opening tags, resulting in a forever increasing indentation. See the table >> in the example document. Using and old version of BBEdit 8.27.2 gives the correct result, see below. >> > > Hi Matt, > > Thanks for the report and the sample documents; after some testing, I've figured out what's happening. > Since this document doesn't contain a DOCTYPE, BBEdit will fall back on its default behavior rules when processing it. > In turn, these rules are determined by how the option "When generating markup in unspecified documents, use..." (in the HTML Markup prefs panel) is set. > If this option is set to "XML", BBEdit will follow strict behavior and thus the Format command will produce the output displayed in your "9.5" sample file. > If this option is set to "HTML", then BBEdit will assume "HTML 4.0.1 Transitional" and format the output accordingly, in this case producing your desired result, e.g. the "8.7.2" sample. > Please note that (due to a bug which we'll fix in future) changes to this option do not take effect immediately--you must instead exit and restart the app, either by quitting and relaunching, or using "Sleep BBEdit" and relaunching (less disruptive). > > I hope this helps, but if you have any further questions, or if we can otherwise be of assistance, please let us know. > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > => Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com> > P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048 > > >
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