Re: Writing enriched text

["François Pinard" <pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:

> [...] what's missing is a way to transform an enriched-mode buffer
> from the internal representation to the text/enriched representation
> (i.e. replacing face attributes with tags).  And vice versa, of course.

These are already available.  See functions `format-decode-region' and
`format-encode-region'.

> So, we would need a command which takes the contents of a <part>,
> grinds it through the format-alist mechanism (or a similar one) and
> presents the result in a new buffer.  The user may then edit and hit
> C-c C-c, whereupon the format-list mechnism (or a similar one) takes
> over again and the result is put between the <part>...</part> tags.

This is the kind of thing I was hoping to find from my initial request.
Maybe we have all the necessary building blocks by now.  We only miss the
initiative of someone to add the glue cleverly.

We are not far from having the capability of composing text/enriched quite
easily right under Gnus.

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