Re: lynx-dev table formatting (possible) solution

[dickey]

> 
> > From: thi <address@hidden> 
>  
> > correct.  probably the original poster meant borrowing algorithms rather 
> > than code.  (although having lynx integrated into emacs would be nice.) 
>  
> Indeed -- the point of Fote's message seemed to be that TABLE text 
> formatting is ugly and complicated, but someone's clearly gone to the effort 
> of doing this with w3 already, so why not see if the algorithms can be 
> dup'd?  elisp in lynx is not really something useful IMHO... 

it's not that it is ugly and complicated, but that lynx is designed as
a one-pass renderer, while tables require look-ahead.  changing that isn't
simple.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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