Re: docs/20028: ASCII docs should reflect tags in the source

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Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Date
25 Aug 2000 03:02:00
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Re: docs/20028: ASCII docs should reflect <emphasis> tags in the source
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 06:28:35PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> I've looked into this a little today. It looks like creating a patch
> which accomplishes this is pretty easy, but there are a few hoops to
> jump though. First, w3m delibratly doesn't support <i> tags at all.
> It parses them, but throws them out. This could be corrected if we
> wanted to do so. What is supported is <strong> which maps to <em> which
> in turn maps to <b>. I've generated a patch so <b>blah</b> becomes
> *blah* when -dump is specified. There's a good chance this is the wrong
> way to do this, but it works for me. How would people suggest I
> proceed? Should I implement Nik's suggestion of <b>bold</b> -> *bold*
> and <i>italics</i> -> /italics/ or just what? My concern about Nik's
> suggesion is that <B> is used in a number of places including FAQ
> Query's which I think it will look silly. I'm kinda thinking the right
> thing to do may be to change the style sheets to translate <emphasis> to
> <em> and only dealing with <em> in w3m.

The stylesheets add a CLASS attribute with the name of the original DocBook
element in some cases. For example;

<i class="emphasis">This was originally marked up with 'emphasis'</i>

See if w3m can look for that instead.

N
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