From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chad Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rendering HTML Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:39:22 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284903588 17426 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2010 13:39:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:39:48 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs-Devel devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 15:39:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxK7L-00058M-SQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:39:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59705 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxK7E-0006qw-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45171 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OxK78-0006qL-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:39:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxK73-0004EA-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-3.mit.edu ([18.9.25.14]:64537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OxK73-0004E4-RG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:39:25 -0400 X-AuditID: 1209190e-b7b91ae0000068d0-3a-4c961291e2e0 Original-Received: from mailhub-auth-2.mit.edu ( [18.7.62.36]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-3.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id 6E.30.26832.192169C4; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:39:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-2.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id o8JDdOr3031851 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.194] (c-71-231-113-235.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [71.231.113.235]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id o8JDdMcB010930 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:39:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAARYGOcM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130481 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > The next think I thought I'd tackle (after a couple more weeks of > polishing up the recent changes to Gnus) is writing a very simple HTML > renderer for Emacs. Org-mode has a text-based table editor/layout module, as a minor mode: http://orgmode.org/manual/Tables.html It looks like orgtbl does character-based spacing, either automatically resizing or with explicit sizes but no percentage-based reflow. It might be helpful as a starting point. Alternately, you could get crazy with SVG support. *Chad