Re: Truncating lines in the article buffer

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Then you can't render HTML accurately with the current approach.  You're
> fighting Emacs at every step: the text layout is hard, you can't flow
> around images, displaying images is a pain, etc.

No, the only thing that's impossible is to render images in tables.  The
rest works pretty well.  (If we'd have truncate-lines on a per-line
basis, it'd be pretty darn perfect.)

> Maybe we're approaching this wrong because we think a table should be
> displayed like HTML does.  How about unwrapping tables into lists?  So
> this (a 2x2 table with headers H1 and H2):
>
>  H1  H2
> [aaa|bbb]
> [ccc|ddd]
>
> gets rendered as
>
> * H1
> ** aaa
> ** ccc
>
> * H2
> ** bbb
> ** ddd

I get work email that has configuration settings laid out as tables.
Believe me, you won't have any idea what they're going on about unless
you're actually seeing the tables as tables.

I'm fine with not displaying the images in the tables.  I think it's
impossible* to do in Emacs, but it's not very important.  Having the
text be readable is, though.

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* That's a challenge.  :-)

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