Re: Does anyone run Emacs/w3 ?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Steven Woody <steven@lczmsoft.com> writes:

> I'm running Emacs/w3.  My Emacs was set as black background, this make
> most pages look ugly.  Has any made a decent configuration for w3
> running in this situation?
> 
> And, I found in w3, most pages do not wrap its long lines properly.  Is
> this a bug? How do I resolv it?

I'm  using this ugly  hook. It  started with  only removing  font size
tags, but as you can see, I added a number of ad-hoc pre-processing of
the html buffers.

A more general and stronger filter could be implemented in this hook.

Or you may use an online filter such as:
http://kangzhuang.ucam.org/cgi-bin/access/access.cgi

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ssb22/access.html#download
http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~ssb22/help.htm




(add-hook 'w3-parse-hooks 'pjb-w3-remove-sizes)

(defun pjb-w3-remove-sizes ()
  (interactive)
  ;; reseauvoltaire;shark tank;rigoler
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (when (re-search-forward "http://www.reseauvoltaire.net\\|newsletter de 
Rigoler.com\\|CONTENT=\"Shark Tank\"\\|http://i.imdb.com"; nil t)
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (while (re-search-forward "</?\\(center\\|table\\|tr\\|td\\|img\\|div 
align=\"center\"\\)[^>]*>" nil t)
      (replace-match "<p>"))
    ) ;;when
  ;; remove absolute width:
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward 
"\\(<[^>]*\\)\\<width=\\(['\"]*\\)[0-9][0-9]*\\2\\([^>]*>\\)" nil t)
    (replace-match "\\1\\3"))
  ;; remove absolute height:
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward 
"\\(<[^>]*\\)\\<height=\\(['\"]*\\)[0-9][0-9]*\\2\\([^>]*>\\)" nil t)
    (replace-match "\\1\\3"))
  ;; remove long lines of dots:
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "\\.\\{40,\\}" nil t)
    (replace-match "<hr>" t t))
  ;; cut long space-less lines:
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "\\([^<> \n\r]\\{60,\\}\\)" nil t)
    (replace-match (unsplit-string (cut-string (match-string 0) 20) " \n") t t))
  ;; remove <st1:xxx> and </st1:xxx> tags:
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "\\(</?st1:[^>]*>\\)" nil t)
    (replace-match "" t t))
  ;; Text alternative instead of pictures.
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "<IMG[^>]*\"\\[\\(XANALYS\\|Common Lisp HyperSpec 
(TM)\\)\\]\"[^>]*>" nil t)
    (replace-match "[X]"))
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward 
"<IMG[^>]*\"\\[\\(Previous\\|Up\\|Next\\)\\]\"[^>]*>" nil t)
    (replace-match "[\\1]"))
  ;; <hr>
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "<hr>" nil t)
    (replace-match
     "<br>------------------------------------------------------------<br>")
    )
  ;; Convert all hN to h6.
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "\\(</?h\\)\\([1-5]\\)\\([^>]*>\\)" nil t)
    (replace-match "\\16\\3"))
  ;; end
  (goto-char (point-min))
;;; (let ((w (buffer-string)))
;;;     (save-excursion
;;;     (find-file "/tmp/w")
;;;     (erase-buffer)
;;;     (insert w)
;;;     (save-buffer 0)
;;;     (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
  );;pjb-w3-remove-sizes



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