Re: Rendering HTML Content in Email Messages

[Randy Yates]

Thanks very much Johan. Let me read up and see if I can 
get my system functioning the way I like.

--Randy

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:
>
>> Can someone please help clear up my confusion on HTML article
>> washing? I want to keep HTML washing turned off by default, but if
>> I've received an HTML message from someone I trust I want to tell
>> gnus to render it. Typing "W h" does not work.
>>
>> I've read about the gnus-article-wash-html function (which is nil on
>> startup for me) but I don't understand the interaction between ti
>> and gnus-article-wash-function and other gnus-article-washXYZ
>> functions. Help!
>
>       The default is to use the function specified by
>       `mm-text-html-renderer' to convert the HTML, but this is
>       controlled by the `gnus-article-wash-function' variable [it is
>       used instead, if non-nil].
>
>       (info "(gnus)Article Washing")
>
> `mm-text-html-renderer' is used to look up a renderer in
> `mm-text-html-washer-alist' (or call directly, if a function). There
> are several predefined renderers, including w3 and w3m which use the
> functions `gnus-article-wash-html-with-w3' and
> `gnus-article-wash-html-with-w3m' respectively (see below).
>
>
> ,----[ C-h v gnus-article-wash-function RET ]
> | gnus-article-wash-function's value is nil
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Function used for converting HTML into text.
> | 
> | Defined in `gnus-art'.
> `----
>
> ,----[ C-h v mm-text-html-renderer RET ]
> | mm-text-html-renderer's value is w3
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Render of HTML contents.
> | It is one of defined renderer types, or a rendering function.
> | The defined renderer types are:
> | `w3'   : use Emacs/W3;
> | `w3m'  : use emacs-w3m;
> | `w3m-standalone': use w3m;
> | `links': use links;
> | `lynx' : use lynx;
> | `html2text' : use html2text;
> | nil    : use external viewer.
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> | 
> | Defined in `mm-decode'.
> `----
>         
> ,----[ C-h v mm-text-html-washer-alist RET ]
> | mm-text-html-washer-alist's value is 
> | ((w3 . gnus-article-wash-html-with-w3)
> |  (w3m . gnus-article-wash-html-with-w3m)
> |  (w3m-standalone mm-inline-wash-with-stdin nil "w3m" "-dump" "-T" 
> "text/html")
> |  (links mm-inline-wash-with-file mm-links-remove-leading-blank "links" 
> "-dump" file)
> |  (lynx mm-inline-wash-with-stdin nil "lynx" "-dump" "-force_html" "-stdin" 
> "-nolist")
> |  (html2text html2text))
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | The attributes of washer types for text/html.
> | 
> | Defined in `mm-view'.
> `----
>
> -- 
> Johan Bockgård

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