From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rendering HTML Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:14:01 -0400 Message-ID: <87bp7se6k6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284999356 20724 80.91.229.12 (20 Sep 2010 16:15:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:15:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 20 18:15:55 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 1Oxj1y-0007YX-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:15:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38480 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oxj1x-0002kj-Rw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42854 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oxj1p-0002hz-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxj0D-0002y8-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po40.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.103]:36706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oxj0D-0002y4-S2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014154.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.154]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po40.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o8KGE1KG006017 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9F2E7C018; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:14:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:06:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:130539 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > You have stuff like > > > >
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> ... > > So you have all these boxes inside of boxes, with some constraints that > are absolute, and others that are relative (% and getting the width of a > box depending on what it contains and how you break the text in the > box), and so on. > > So before I give my brain a strain trying to think about this, has > anybody else done something like this? Either code that can be included > in Emacs, or other Lisp code that I can peek at, or, failing all that, > just somebody who has written something about how to approach this? One thing that comes to mind is ses.el. I don't know how much of that code is generally reusable, though.