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Stricly speaking, this message is off-topic on this list, but it is
still connected to Gnus usage.  Problem description follows.

Like others here, I like it very much that Gnus can render HTML
inline, and pretend that it is just another form of text.  What I
don't like are the gimmicks that w3 tries to do with the text.
Specifically, it tries to enlarge fonts, use foreground and background
colors, render images, draw tables with fancy glyphs (which, for some
reason, doesn't work out), and several other things.  In my setting,
all of these things turn out very very *very* ugly, and slow things
down.

So, I'd like to configure w3 to (not) do the following things:

* No fonts.  I want w3 to use my default font, and not try to enlarge
  <h[number]> and <font size=...> things.  Also, I want *everything*
  in fix-width.  It is acceptable to render <b> and <i> as `bold' and
  `italic' faces, though.

* No colors.  All colors specified in the document should be
  completely ignored.  This includes all foreground and background
  color settings.  It is acceptable to color HTML links with w3's
  default colors, though.

* No background images.  Background images are per-buffer rather than
  per-extent, and I'd rather not see them.  I haven't yet made my mind
  on whether I don't want to see *any* images in the document, though.

* No fancy table gimmicks.  Apparently w3 is trying to draw the tables
  with "drawing" characters using a face with an associated
  display-table, but for some reason that fails to work and I see
  extremely ugly "q" characters drawing the tables' borders.
  Rendering tables /per se/ is fine, though.

* Not making me end each paragraph with "though."

Thanks a bunch to whoever provides me the answers.