Date: 24 Aug 2000 12:53:02 +0200 From: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> Subject: Re: docs/20028: ASCII docs should reflect <emphasis> tags in the source Message-ID: <84og2jnd69.fsf@frodo.sickla.raditex.se> In-Reply-To: Brooks Davis's message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:28:35 -0700" References: <200007190554.WAA12534@minya.sea.one-eyed-alien.net> <20000823182835.A25522@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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>>>>> "BD" == Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes: [ About making <emphasis> some kind of visible emphasis in text-only output ] BD> I've looked into this a little today. It looks like creating a patch BD> which accomplishes this is pretty easy, but there are a few hoops to BD> jump though. First, w3m delibratly doesn't support <i> tags at all. BD> It parses them, but throws them out. This could be corrected if we BD> wanted to do so. What is supported is <strong> which maps to <em> which BD> in turn maps to <b>. I've generated a patch so <b>blah</b> becomes BD> *blah* when -dump is specified. There's a good chance this is the wrong BD> way to do this, but it works for me. How would people suggest I BD> proceed? Should I implement Nik's suggestion of <b>bold</b> -> *bold* BD> and <i>italics</i> -> /italics/ or just what? My concern about Nik's BD> suggesion is that <B> is used in a number of places including FAQ BD> Query's which I think it will look silly. I'm kinda thinking the right BD> thing to do may be to change the style sheets to translate <emphasis> to BD> <em> and only dealing with <em> in w3m. Well, *foo* looks like bold to some, but isn't, really. Same goes for /bar/ ... So, while I'm in favor of <strong>foo</strong> -> *foo* and <em>bar</em> -> _bar_ or /bar/, I think <b> and <i> really should be ignored when font controll isn't availible. Also, you may want to make it possible to disable this stuff in certain tags, for example, if you have an example command line that looks like: % *rm* /junk/ ... then there is bound to be some questions about that ... :-) That said, I agree with the basic suggestion that it would be nice to have e.g. <emphasis> render visibly in plain text. -- Rasmus Kaj ------------------------ rasmus@kaj.se - http://Raditex.se/~kaj/ \ If you're happy, you're successful \----------------------------------------------------- http://Raditex.se/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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