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I have just upgraded to MediaWiki v1.5.2 (Gentoo) and a template I had working
in 1.4.12 no longer seems to work, in particular the inline styles for the <PRE>
tag are now being stripped.

The inline styling of the pre tag is needed as I have to display a block of
formatted text (including multiple whitespace and line breaks) in a radically
different language (Voynich). While one solution could be to redefine the CSS
style sheet to use my font changes I don't believe I can do this, because, for
this project, I have four <PRE> style templates each using a different character
set (Voynich EVA Hand 1, EVA Hand 2, Currier, Frogguy) which all need to use a
different face.

v1.4.12 Template:EVA1 (WORKING)
[code]<table width="75%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
style="background-color: #FFFF99; 
      border: solid 1px blue;">
      <tr><td style="Color: white; background-color: Blue; border: solid 1px
#a0ffa0;
      border-bottom: 1px solid #888;">
      <font size="-1">EVA 1: <b>{{{1}}}</b></font></td></tr>
      <tr style="background-color: #FFFF99;><td>
      <pre style="font-family: 'EVA Hand 1'; line-height: 150%; 
                  font-size: 16pt; color: black; background-color: #FFFF99;
border-style: none">
      {{{2}}}</pre>
      </td></tr></table>
[/code]

This worked perfectly in 1.4.12, but when I plug this template into 1.5.2 I get
the result:

v1.5.2 Template:EVA1 (NOT WORKING)
[code]<table width="75%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
style="background-color: #FFFF99; 
      border: solid 1px blue;">
      <tr><td style="Color: white; background-color: Blue; border: solid 1px
#a0ffa0;
      border-bottom: 1px solid #888;">
      <font size="-1">EVA 1: <b>{{{1}}}</b></font></td></tr>
      <tr style="background-color: #FFFF99;><td>
      <pre>
      {{{2}}}</pre>
      </td></tr></table>
[/code]

As you can see the inline style for PRE has been totally stripped.

**To reproduce this problem: copy the first code block into a MediaWiki
template:, save then edit again. The pre style will be stripped and it will look
like the second code block.**

My MediaWiki server is on Gentoo Linux. I have tried to enter the template using
Firefox on XP, Firefox on OSX and Firefox on Gentoo.