Good point re elpa -- that is how I now install most packages. However I dont believe w3 or w3m are available via the default GNU packages archive -- nor have I found them on the additional marmalade package archive. -- -- On 5/8/12, David Tseng <davidtseng@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Incidentally, after building w3 and w3m from source in the past, I now > take the easy way out by using ELPA. It's worth a look for discovering > and quickly trying out packages you may not have previously stumbled > upon. > > On 5/7/12, Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The quick and dirty 'fix' I applied for this werror is to comment out >> the two lines from w3-speak.el which require emacspeak-fix-interactive >> at cimpile time. This stops the make process from exiting early and >> ensures the rest of the *.el files are compiled. It does not appear to >> have any dramatic impact. >> >> Raman, I looked at your patch from your w3 and I think your right. It >> looks like all you changes do is remove some of the excessive >> 'padding' w3 was doing when rendering things like lists and >> blockquote. On my system, the unmodified version would put boxquote >> elements and lists right over on the right hand side - so much so that >> blockquotes would end up being rendered as only one or two words per >> line. I found that modifying the default.css file to change all margin >> settings from 5em to 1em greatly improved things. >> >> One remaining and extremely frustrating issue I have is that on some >> pages, regardless of style sheet settings, w3 renders the page with >> white background and white foreground/text or white background and >> light grey text. As someone who actualy finds looking at a screen with >> a white background physically painful, this is somewhat frustrating. I >> did look at this a while back as it was the main reason I stopped >> ujsing w3 and from memory, it is due to a bad interaction with pages >> that have either forced a background colour and don't set any >> text/foreground colour and/or conflicts between css settings and 'hard >> coded' page settings. Maybe it is time to look at it again. >> >> I also suspect I have to do some MIME tweaking. When using the epub >> feature, it works with some epub titles, but fails with others. In >> particular, seems to fail with titles generated primarily for the >> kindle. With these titles, instead of opening the content, it asks me >> where to same the MIME object. Need to investigate further. >> >> Tim >> >> >> On 8 May 2012 14:09, T. V. Raman <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> this error has been around for a long time and shouldn't affect anything. >>> >>>>>>>> "Bart" == Bart Bunting <bart@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Bart> Raman, et al, Whilst we are discussing w3 I am seeing >>> Bart> issues when doing a make on the w3 source. It appears >>> Bart> to be related to emacspeak libraries not being found. >>> Bart> >>> Bart> Having said that w3 itself appears to work even with >>> Bart> the error. >>> Bart> >>> Bart> Is this normal? >>> Bart> >>> Bart> I see this both under linux and on my mac. >>> Bart> >>> Bart> Here is the make error: >>> Bart> >>> Bart> bart@xxxxxxxxxxx:~/.emacs.d/src/w3$make cd lisp && make w3 >>> Bart> GNUSDIR=/usr/local/emacs/24.96/share/emacs/24.0.96/lisp/gnus/ >>> Bart> URLDIR=/usr/local/emacs/24.96/share/emacs/24.0.96/lisp/url/ >>> Bart> W3SRCDIR=. emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./docomp.el >>> Bart> -l >>> Bart> /usr/local/emacs/24.96/share/emacs/24.0.96/lisp/url//url-vars.el >>> Bart> -l ./w3-vars.el -f batch-byte-compile w3-display.el >>> Bart> uncompressing url-vars.el.gz... uncompressing >>> Bart> url-vars.el.gz...done Wrote w3-display.elc >>> Bart> GNUSDIR=/usr/local/emacs/24.96/share/emacs/24.0.96/lisp/gnus/ >>> Bart> URLDIR=/usr/local/emacs/24.96/share/emacs/24.0.96/lisp/url/ >>> Bart> W3SRCDIR=. emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./docomp.el >>> Bart> -l >>> Bart> /usr/local/emacs/24.96/share/emacs/24.0.96/lisp/url//url-vars.el >>> Bart> -l ./w3-vars.el -f batch-byte-compile w3-speak.el >>> Bart> uncompressing url-vars.el.gz... uncompressing >>> Bart> url-vars.el.gz...done >>> Bart> >>> Bart> In toplevel form: w3-speak.el:49:1:Error: Cannot open >>> Bart> load file: emacspeak-fix-interactive make[1]: *** >>> Bart> [w3-speak.elc] Error 1 make: *** [w3] Error 2 >>> Bart> >>> Bart> >>> Bart> Cheers >>> Bart> >>> Bart> Bart >>> Bart> >>> Bart> "T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Bart> >>> >> Tim, Per your suggestion, I have checked in >>> >> emacspeak/tvr/tvr-w3.patch --- the patch was created from >>> >> my local snapshot with git diff origin/master >>> >> >>> >> after making sure that git pull -a claimed my local >>> >> snapshot was uptodate. >>> >> >>> >> Glancing at the patch -- I dont see anything significant >>> >> that should make w3 work here and not from the git repo. >>> >> >>> >> The git repo I am refering to is: git config >>> >> remote.origin.url git://git.sv.gnu.org/w3.git >>> >> -- >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On 5/7/12, Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Raman, >>> >>> >>> >>> I've been attempting to get w3 working and while I've >>> >>> finally got it going, it was not trivial. >>> >>> >>> >>> I think part of the problem is that there has been no >>> >>> updates to the w3 repository since May 2008. I know there >>> >>> has been a couple of patches from you and others to fix >>> >>> various bugs, but hunting them down and applying them is >>> >>> not easy. On this basis, I wanted to make a suggestion. >>> >>> >>> >>> Would it be possible for you to do a diff against the >>> >>> current w3 repository code and the version of w3 you are >>> >>> running and put the diffs in a w3-patches directory >>> >>> within the emacspeak distribution. This would make it >>> >>> esier to anyone wanting to run w3 to apply the same >>> >>> patches you have been using. In addition to making it >>> >>> easier for users, it may help in tracking down problems >>> >>> as we will have a common base everyone is working from. >>> >>> >>> >>> regards, >>> >>> >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Tim Cross >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your >>> >>> address on the emacspeak list send mail to >>> >>> "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of >>> >>> "unsubscribe" or "help". >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your >>> >> address on the emacspeak list send mail to >>> >> "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of >>> >> "unsubscribe" or "help". >>> >>> -- >>> Best Regards, >>> --raman >> >> >> >> -- >> Tim Cross >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the >> emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a >> subject of "unsubscribe" or "help". >> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of "unsubscribe" or "help".
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