Re: State of the art for HTML-to-text rendering?

On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:53:50 +0000, Conrad Hughes via "Discussion of nmh development, and help for new users" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the responses on this; I tried the w3m/lynx/elinks defaults
> and none solved my specific problem (which basically comes down to
> whether the browser looks at CSS I suspect), but at least lynx manages
> to reliably render to 80 columns on an 80-column terminal, so I've
> switched from w3m to that.
> 
> Looks as if I might need something like brow.sh (which somehow renders
> Firefox output in a terminal window) in order to suppress the styled-
> out summary paragraph, but installing that looks like effort, and it may
> no longer be maintained.
> 
> Paul's idea of invoking a GUI app for a with-images version of things is
> also a good one: it's rare enough that I currently just manually
> `mhstore` and invoke a browser on whatever that produces, but automating
> the process would be smart.

I've been using [N]MH as my choice in email at home since before the turn
of the century.  I used it at work before then.
I've been doing the fetchmail from my web email service to local and then
reading/sending email from my local Linux machine.

Over the years I've used many different graphical front-ends as the world
moved from terminals to xterms to *term (today).  Originally I used xmh,
then exmh, and for the last 10+ yrs I've used Sylpheed.  Sylpheed isn't an
nmh only GUI, but it has support for it.  One of the key features is that 
it can shows the different parts of a message - and will show the non-rendered
html as ascii.  Jpgs and png are rendered in the message window.
If you want the whole HTML experience, you can double left-click on the HTML 
part and it will open a new tab in a browser of choice (sans jpg / png 
attached to the message)

These days I'm using Vivaldi - all running on Linux.
> 
> Best,
> Conrad
> 

jerry
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