Re: WYSWYG HTML mail composition with Gnus/Org-mode

["Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:23:56 -0600 "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> ES> This email stems from a discussion on the org-mode mailing list [1].
> ES> The code located at [2] allows for the sending of text/html multipart
> ES> alternatives of email messages from Gnus message buffers.
>
> ES> `orgstruct-mode' and `orgtbl-mode' allow for using Org-mode syntax in
> ES> mail buffers.  The code mentioned above uses the HTML export mechanisms
> ES> of Org-mode to approximate WYSWYG HTML email composition -- retaining
> ES> the original org-mode text as a text/plain alternative.
>
> Should we mention this in the Gnus manual?

There is documentation for this available on Worg (the collaborative
Org-mode wiki) at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mime.php

This file now lives in the contrib directory of Org-mode, and has
support for the WL mailer as well.

Assuming you don't want a url in the documentation, I'd be happy to
summarize the above into a paragraph or two for the gnus manual, could
you point be towards where such a paragraph should be located in the
gnus manual structure?

> It seems quite useful.
>

Great, I hope so -- Eric

>
> ES> Not to advocate an increase in the use of HTML email, but I find these
> ES> functions useful when sending tables, lists or latex formulas to people
> ES> who I know use web clients w/o fixed-width fonts to read their email.
>
> That battle was lost last century :)
>
> Ted