From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73114 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Truncating lines in the article buffer Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:09:18 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87hbgox141.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87zkuh3gfb.fsf@blah.blah> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287068977 17880 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2010 15:09:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:09:37 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21486@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Oct 14 17:09:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P6PR1-00020n-Rq for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:09:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P6PQz-0008Oz-Cp; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:09:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P6PQx-0008Oi-VB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P6PQt-0003Dm-9a for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:09:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P6PQs-0002jA-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:09:26 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P6PQr-0001wd-Vu for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:09:25 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:09:25 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:09:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sE5AoSDkXSHewMGNtHsgKh/Ee8Y= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73114 Archived-At: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:01:13 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> I know the widths in the html might end up asking for that, or even >> demanding it, but it's hard to read hscrolling across and back all the >> time. If columns are flowed text you'd much prefer to fit them in the >> screen (as long as it left a tolerably sensible amount for each). LMI> Of course. But that's often not possible with deeply nested tables. I hate to even say this, but... Consider using SVG to render the tables. It's scalable (including the fonts) so the image will look good at any resolution (if the pixel count allows it). It's really easy to insert PNG and JPEG images too. See this for some good examples: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/svgprimer.html That won't allow links inside the SVG image, though, because the interface with librsvg is one-way (web browsers can do more). So maybe use SVG for each table cell without links if links are a requirement. I personally would be happy with cell contents that cut off whatever did not fit (with ... to indicate it). Ted