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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