From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73852 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: shr: alt text truncation Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:22:59 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288945420 22158 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2010 08:23:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:23:40 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22221@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Nov 05 09:23:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHa7-0005Ux-Rz for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:23:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHZz-0006gh-8X; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:23:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHZx-0006gO-CE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:23:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHZt-0002j3-2V for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:23:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PEHZs-0006Vj-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:23:16 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHZr-0005KQ-JV for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:23:16 +0100 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:23:15 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:23:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VG9HQzqHyV5JAhThrhyRF4XCcHA= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73852 Archived-At: >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > I added the limit because of tables, really. :-) I found that in my > test cases, the alt texts were typically the thing that took up most > space, because it's not uncommon to have obnoxiously long, but > nonsensical alt texts, and when rendering tables, this made many of > them somewhat unreadable. Couldn't you keep them out of the width calculation for the table columns, but let them expand to the width determined by the other cells in that column? Or is that what you tried, that looked bad?