Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:28:35 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/20028: ASCII docs should reflect <emphasis> tags in the source Message-ID: <20000823182835.A25522@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200007190554.WAA12534@minya.sea.one-eyed-alien.net>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:54:04PM -0700 References: <200007190554.WAA12534@minya.sea.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:54:04PM -0700, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net wrote:
> >Description:
>
> When the <emphasis> tag is used in DocBook, this is translated to a
> variant on the <i> tag in HTML vi the style sheets. The HTML docs are
> then processed by w3m to produce ASCII versions. w3m appears to
> compleatly ignore <i> tags even in interative mode and it ignores both
> <i> and <b> tags in -dump mode. This means that no indication of
> emphasis is transmitted to the ASCII form which potentialy distorts the
> text's meaning.
>
> >Fix:
>
> The fix is going to be something like patching w3m to have a mode where
> it emphasises things like *this* or something.
I've looked into this a little today. It looks like creating a patch
which accomplishes this is pretty easy, but there are a few hoops to
jump though. First, w3m delibratly doesn't support <i> tags at all.
It parses them, but throws them out. This could be corrected if we
wanted to do so. What is supported is <strong> which maps to <em> which
in turn maps to <b>. I've generated a patch so <b>blah</b> becomes
*blah* when -dump is specified. There's a good chance this is the wrong
way to do this, but it works for me. How would people suggest I
proceed? Should I implement Nik's suggestion of <b>bold</b> -> *bold*
and <i>italics</i> -> /italics/ or just what? My concern about Nik's
suggesion is that <B> is used in a number of places including FAQ
Query's which I think it will look silly. I'm kinda thinking the right
thing to do may be to change the style sheets to translate <emphasis> to
<em> and only dealing with <em> in w3m.
-- Brooks
This patch will add *bold* support to w3m in dump mode. It should be
applied after the other patches in the port.
--- file.c.freebsd Wed Aug 23 17:58:07 2000
+++ file.c Wed Aug 23 18:13:22 2000
@@ -2507,6 +2507,7 @@
#ifdef ID_EXT
Str id = NULL;
#endif /* ID_EXT */
+ extern int w3m_dump;
if (obuf->flag & RB_PRE) {
switch (cmd) {
@@ -2520,16 +2521,25 @@
switch (cmd) {
case HTML_B:
- obuf->in_bold++;
- if (obuf->in_bold > 1)
- return 1;
+ if(!w3m_dump) {
+ obuf->in_bold++;
+ if (obuf->in_bold > 1)
+ return 1;
+ } else {
+ HTMLlineproc1("*", h_env);
+ }
return 0;
case HTML_N_B:
- if (obuf->in_bold == 1 && close_effect0(obuf, HTML_B))
- obuf->in_bold = 0;
- if (obuf->in_bold > 0) {
- obuf->in_bold--;
- if (obuf->in_bold == 0)
+ if(!w3m_dump) {
+ if (obuf->in_bold == 1 && close_effect0(obuf, HTML_B))
+ obuf->in_bold = 0;
+ if (obuf->in_bold > 0) {
+ obuf->in_bold--;
+ if (obuf->in_bold == 0)
+ return 0;
+ }
+ } else {
+ HTMLlineproc1("*", h_env);
return 0;
}
return 1;
--
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