From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24875 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: WIBNI Date: 27 Aug 1999 21:19:31 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86wvuhf3iv.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162366 11145 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:06:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10697 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:19:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB23767; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:17:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:18:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12790 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:18:15 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (bang.netfonds.no [195.1.89.231]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10590 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:17:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA13249; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:19:48 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Robert Bringhurst's _The Elements of Typographic Style_ X-Now-Playing: Joni Mitchell's _Turbulent Indigo_: "The Sire Of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "27 Aug 1999 14:05:12 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.2 (Sumida) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ Reason? We don't need no stinking reason! This is emacs after all, who > needs to be reasonable? :) :-) > 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. If tools existed for documents comparable to the netpbm collection, then it would be very interesting. Say -- something that converted from "any" document format to (*ick*) RTF, and then from RTF to "any" other document format. If all we have is mswordview, then it would still be fun, but less useful to create a generic framework for this stuff. On the other hand... We're not just talking documents and images here. Convertion of sound from format to format? Video? Hm. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen