* problem with mime conversion for emails
@ 2010-08-29 20:03 Eric S Fraga
2010-08-29 20:52 ` Eric Schulte
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From: Eric S Fraga @ 2010-08-29 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,
I am hoping somebody can suggest a workaround for a simple problem
with org-mime. Specifically, I am in charge of a project in which I
need to email around a to do list with checkboxes. I have been using
PDF export for this and this works perfectly fine. However, given the
existence of org-mime, I thought this would remove a step from those
reading my emails.
The problem is that the HTML conversion for checkbox lists uses the
construct
: <span style="visibility:hidden;">X</span>
(generated on line 1765 of org-html.el) to fill in the checkboxes for
items *not* done. Unfortunately, the visibility attribute is ignored
by some email readers, with /Gmail/ being one of the prominent guilty
ones. This makes my todo lists look like everything is already done
and we can all go home early! How I wish this were true... ;-)
The whole reason for the use of the visibility attribute, I assume, is
to line entries up.
I am happy to do some post-processing on the HTML output but I think a
better solution may be to do this export differently. Does anybody
have any suggestions? Would replacing the X in the above with
be good enough?
Thanks,
eric
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* Re: problem with mime conversion for emails
2010-08-29 20:03 problem with mime conversion for emails Eric S Fraga
@ 2010-08-29 20:52 ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-30 13:05 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Eric Schulte @ 2010-08-29 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric S Fraga; +Cc: org-mode mailing list
Hi Eric,
An easy fix may be using the `org-mime-html-hook' to post-process the
html, the following (untested) should be sufficient.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-hook 'org-mime-html-hook
(lambda ()
(replace-regexp
(regexp-quote "<span style=\"visibility:hidden;\">X</span>")
" ")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
To me, this seems easier than having an email-specific export target.
Best -- Eric
Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I am hoping somebody can suggest a workaround for a simple problem
> with org-mime. Specifically, I am in charge of a project in which I
> need to email around a to do list with checkboxes. I have been using
> PDF export for this and this works perfectly fine. However, given the
> existence of org-mime, I thought this would remove a step from those
> reading my emails.
>
> The problem is that the HTML conversion for checkbox lists uses the
> construct
>
> : <span style="visibility:hidden;">X</span>
>
> (generated on line 1765 of org-html.el) to fill in the checkboxes for
> items *not* done. Unfortunately, the visibility attribute is ignored
> by some email readers, with /Gmail/ being one of the prominent guilty
> ones. This makes my todo lists look like everything is already done
> and we can all go home early! How I wish this were true... ;-)
>
> The whole reason for the use of the visibility attribute, I assume, is
> to line entries up.
>
> I am happy to do some post-processing on the HTML output but I think a
> better solution may be to do this export differently. Does anybody
> have any suggestions? Would replacing the X in the above with
> be good enough?
>
> Thanks,
> eric
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2010-08-29 20:52 ` Eric Schulte
@ 2010-08-30 13:05 ` Eric S Fraga
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga @ 2010-08-30 13:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Schulte; +Cc: org-mode mailing list
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On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:52:10 -0600, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> An easy fix may be using the `org-mime-html-hook' to post-process the
> html, the following (untested) should be sufficient.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (add-hook 'org-mime-html-hook
> (lambda ()
> (replace-regexp
> (regexp-quote "<span style=\"visibility:hidden;\">X</span>")
> " ")))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> To me, this seems easier than having an email-specific export target.
Yes, this is probably the best approach (and thanks for the actual
elisp code which is nice and succinct!).
I do still wonder at the need for the extra level of complexity
introduced by the visibility attribute, especially given that the
checkboxes only line up if none of them is of the type [-]...
Anyway, I've put this code in my config! Thanks again.
eric
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