From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22784 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Writing enriched text Date: 23 Apr 1999 16:39:35 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <8690bm6sxc.fsf@kramer.bp.aventail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160641 31147 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:37:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13171 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:41:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAB16048; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:40:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:40:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA27291 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:40:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from degusse.IRO.UMontreal.CA (degusse.IRO.UMontreal.CA [132.204.24.51]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13134 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:40:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from trex.IRO.UMontreal.CA (IDENT:pinard@trex.IRO.UMontreal.CA [132.204.26.206]) by degusse.IRO.UMontreal.CA (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA05141; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:39:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from pinard@localhost) by trex.IRO.UMontreal.CA (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA19597; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:39:35 -0400 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE X-Face: "b_m|CE6#'Q8fliQrwHl9K,]PA_o'*S~Dva{~b1n*)K*A(BIwQW.:LY?t4~xhYka_.LV?Qq `}X|71X0ea&H]9Dsk!`kxBXlG;q$mLfv_vtaHK_rHFKu]4'<*LWCyUe@ZcI6"*wB5M@[m [...] 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 , > 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 ... 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. -- François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca Join the free Translation Project! http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard