On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:00:24PM +0100, Antonio Radici wrote:
> can you please check the differences between manual.txt generated with links
> (Debian version) and the one distributed with Ubuntu (and generated with
> elinks-lite?). I've tested it on my desktop and it seems that there are lot of
> differences, I've tried to exclude the empty lines but diff is still reporting
> 500 lines more on the Debian manual (same version of mutt).
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Using vimdiff, I see the following differences:
* links prints '-', while elinks prints '--'
* In some lines, links prints out more leading spaces than elinks.
* Hence, the reason of the extra lines, is that for some
sentences/paragraphs, links renders it in X lines, while elinks
renders it in X-1 lines.
> Are we sure that we are not dropping anything? Additionally, the readeabily
> looks a lot better with the links-dumped manual.
Actually I found elinks output to be better, if you notice that some
author names that got european characters are rendered as follows using
links:
o Bjo:rn Jacke <[email protected]>
o Jimmy Ma:kela: <[email protected]>
while elinks renders it as follows:
o Bjoern Jacke <[email protected]>
o Jimmy Maekelae <[email protected]>
And the output of elinks would be more correct if the option
'-dump-charset utf8' is passed to elinks.
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