Debian Bug report logs - #444629
-ignore_width

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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: -ignore_width

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:15:37 +0800

Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.1-5.1+b1
Severity: wishlist

If HTML has e.g., width="208" in table items, there is no flag in w3m to
ignore them. -cols doesn't help.

> $ w3m -dump -cols 333 http://www.gis.tw/2007LSB/program.htm |grep 流通
> the line break w3m puts between the two characters could be avoided.
>
> Challenge: please tell me some w3m flag to allow those characters to come
> thru together without having to resort to
>
> $ w3m -dump_source http://www.gis.tw/2007LSB/program.htm |iconv -f big5|grep 流通
>
> Wait,
> $ w3m -dump_source http://www.gis.tw/2007LSB/program.htm |
> sed 's/width=[^ ]\+//'|w3m -T text/html -dump|grep 流通
> works.
>
> OK, I see, w3m needs a switch to ignore fixed widths. Should I file a
> (debian w3m wishlist) bug?

< I suppose so (I don't maintain w3m though - I got into lynx because it
< uses curses...).

< Thomas E. Dickey

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