Re: Rendering HTML

[Chong Yidong]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> You have stuff like
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td width=30%>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td width=40px rowspan=2>
> ...
>
> So you have all these boxes inside of boxes, with some constraints that
> are absolute, and others that are relative (% and getting the width of a
> box depending on what it contains and how you break the text in the
> box), and so on.
>
> So before I give my brain a strain trying to think about this, has
> anybody else done something like this?  Either code that can be included
> in Emacs, or other Lisp code that I can peek at, or, failing all that,
> just somebody who has written something about how to approach this?

One thing that comes to mind is ses.el.  I don't know how much of that
code is generally reusable, though.