gnus - xface

gnus - xface

[Hadron Quark]

I have googled up various ways of getting my posts to include an xface :
so far with no positive result.

One such way was here :

http://my.gnus.org/node/215

Where my test post did have an x-face header of:

"X-Face: ptM<fx"*y+GE)aPkE92Lna&J#HS%%~;vRT[]("4j?Lsw;}c))xi=$-H&1nWWB?KxN%A|0)I"

but nothing showed up in gnus when I fetched new news and read the
post. Other peoples xfaces are displaying fine.

I got the header file from using the online converter referenced at the
above url and pointing to to a local gif file I have.

So, my question is : How do you include an xface in emacs 21.4 and gnus 5.10.7?

There are loads of different ways in google but no apparent "master
supported way" : it was all quite confusing to be honest.

thanks for any help.

Re: gnus - xface

[Oliver Jennrich]

Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

Hi heavy guy,

> I have googled up various ways of getting my posts to include an xface :
> so far with no positive result.

Judging from your post you succeeded.

-- 
Space - The final frontier

Re: gnus - xface

[Hadron Quark]

Oliver Jennrich <oliver.jennrich@gmx.net> writes:

> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi heavy guy,
>
>> I have googled up various ways of getting my posts to include an xface :
>> so far with no positive result.
>
> Judging from your post you succeeded.
>
> -- 
> Space - The final frontier

you saw a face????

I dont:( Aaargh!

Judging from your header you too are using emacs 21.4 but under windows?

Re: gnus - xface

[Oliver Jennrich]

Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> Oliver Jennrich <oliver.jennrich@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Hi heavy guy,
>>
>>> I have googled up various ways of getting my posts to include an xface :
>>> so far with no positive result.
>>
>> Judging from your post you succeeded.
>
> you saw a face????

... and now I'm a believer...

But the face in this current posting is different from the one in the
previous and less, er, facey and looking slightly random.
>
> Judging from your header you too are using emacs 21.4 but under windows?

Yes. 21.4.19 on cygwin

-- 
Space - The final frontier

Re: gnus - xface

[Hadron Quark]

Oliver Jennrich <oliver.jennrich@gmx.net> writes:

> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Oliver Jennrich <oliver.jennrich@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> Hi heavy guy,
>>>
>>>> I have googled up various ways of getting my posts to include an xface :
>>>> so far with no positive result.
>>>
>>> Judging from your post you succeeded.
>>
>> you saw a face????
>
> ... and now I'm a believer...
>
> But the face in this current posting is different from the one in the
> previous and less, er, facey and looking slightly random.
>>
>> Judging from your header you too are using emacs 21.4 but under windows?
>
> Yes. 21.4.19 on cygwin

another xface "token" was inserted judging by the headers.

I wonder why I dont see it though?!?!?!? I see everyone elses "face".

>
> -- 
> Space - The final frontier

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lithp : syntax error

Re: gnus - xface

[Tassilo Horn]

Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Hadron,

> I wonder why I dont see it though?!?!?!? I see everyone elses "face".

Weird. Do you see other Faces or X-Faces or both?

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five!

Re: gnus - xface

[Hadron Quark]

Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de> writes:

> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Hadron,
>
>> I wonder why I dont see it though?!?!?!? I see everyone elses "face".
>
> Weird. Do you see other Faces or X-Faces or both?

I only see "Face"s. e.g I saw your gnu. How did you generate it? What is
in your .gnus.el?

>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> -- 
> A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five!
>
>
>

-- 
lithp : syntax error

Re: gnus - xface

[Raymond Scholz]

· Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wonder why I dont see it though?!?!?!? I see everyone elses "face".

Check this: `C-h v gnus-article-x-face-too-ugly RET'

This variable name makes me snigger every time...

Cheers, Ray
-- 
Look Ma, this man can twist his fingers as if they were made of rubber,
isn't that amazing? -- Not really, he's been using Emacs for years...!

Re: gnus - xface

[Michael Kallweitt]

Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> you saw a face????
>
> I dont:( Aaargh!

Do you have uncompface installed and in your PATH? (I noticed that
this was missing in my local installation while reading this thread.)

Re: gnus - xface

[Hadron Quark]

There is no uncompface on my ubuntu setup.

It seems that my emacs can show "Face: " but not "X-Face: " : the online
programs to generate X-Face data generate "X-Face: XaB" data which is
not compatible with the "Face:" header line. e.g I can see nice pictures
for other posts with a "Face: " header (not "X-Face: "), but if I do the
same with data generated by, for example,

http://www.dairiki.org/xface/xface.php

then the picture "place" shows up in my posts but no valid picture is
contained therein.

Any ideas?

I really can't figure this out and I just know that I'm missing
something straightforward.

Re: gnus - xface

[Michael Kallweitt]

Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> There is no uncompface on my ubuntu setup.

Take a look at the Gnus manual [1].

Unless your version of Emacs has compiled-in compface support, you
should either get a binary package for your system or compile it from
source [2].

[1] <URL:http://quimby.gnus.org/gnus/manual/gnus_285.html#SEC285>
[2] <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/compface/compface.tar.Z>

Re: gnus - xface

[Hadron Quark]

Michael Kallweitt <M.Kallweitt@gmx.de> writes:

> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> There is no uncompface on my ubuntu setup.
>
> Take a look at the Gnus manual [1].
>
> Unless your version of Emacs has compiled-in compface support, you
> should either get a binary package for your system or compile it from
> source [2].
>
> [1] <URL:http://quimby.gnus.org/gnus/manual/gnus_285.html#SEC285>
> [2] <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/compface/compface.tar.Z>

Thanks Michael : wierd how in all my googling I never found this. Sure
enough the debian package had compface (I had looked for uncompface :().

And guess what!!! It all works fine now!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot.

Re: gnus - xface

[Hadron Quark]

Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> Michael Kallweitt <M.Kallweitt@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> There is no uncompface on my ubuntu setup.
>>
>> Take a look at the Gnus manual [1].
>>
>> Unless your version of Emacs has compiled-in compface support, you
>> should either get a binary package for your system or compile it from
>> source [2].
>>
>> [1] <URL:http://quimby.gnus.org/gnus/manual/gnus_285.html#SEC285>
>> [2] <URL:ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/compface/compface.tar.Z>
>
> Thanks Michael : wierd how in all my googling I never found this. Sure
> enough the debian package had compface (I had looked for uncompface :().
>
> And guess what!!! It all works fine now!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Thanks a lot.

And just for google completeness, here is a lightly harder to find online
x-face creation program which gives previews :

http://www.mythic-beasts.com/tools-toys/xface/

Re: gnus - xface

[CHENG Gao]

You can use compface.el under contrib dir of Gnus to view x-face without
external program needed.