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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > ie I'd need to configure the four values
> > 
> > MIME type            Filter       Args   Output type
> > "application/msword" "mswordview" "-o -" "text/html"
> > 
> > And he presto I get W3 rendering a copy of the word document as HTML in
> > the article buffer.
> 
> William has described the chain for converting images, but I don't think
> a similar chain can exist for, er, documents.  I mean, you can convert
> most any picture to most any other picture format, but you can't
> reasonably go from Frame to msword to postscript to html to LaTeX, or
> whatever.

Reason?  We don't need no stinking reason!  This is emacs after all, who
needs to be reasonable? :)

> So I think it would make more sense just to define a viewer for
> application/msword that converts to html and then hands it to w3.

Probably right, but...

Would be cool to have generic mime-type converting though.  You could
extend the logic in images.el to arbitrary MIME types pretty easily though.
You might want to add a 'quality' parameter though, so that we don't just
blindly choose the shortest chain but at a lower total quality output.
Hmmm....

-Bill P.