On 15 Aug 2017, at 17:22, Bill Cole wrote:
On 15 Aug 2017, at 9:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
Note that Markdown is supposed to be simple readable plain text and
therefore it's also reasonable to convert to Markdown when trying to
generate plain text from HTML. For example, this should result in
reasonably good conversions of emphasized text or HTML lists. In
general, MailMate always tries to loose as little information as
possible.
Yes, but when converting to "plain text" it is disconcerting to have
body text in the middle of a sentence wrapped in brackets and followed
by an URL of any size. I don't generate HTML mail by choice, so using
Markdown's *obtrusive* features in generating a reply just makes it
less comprehensible. (But I'm a Luddite who believes lightweight
markup reached its peak expression ~25ya with setext...)
I certainly did not mean to imply that you should use HTML or Markdown.
Only that Markdown (like setext) is a reasonable output when converting
HTML to plain text. It just doesn't work well for long links (or,
depending on personal opinion, any links at all). It's always a priority
for me to make MailMate work well for strict plain text only users (even
if they are in the minority).
Since you're using the Python html2text, I think there the options
that make links into per-paragraph or per-document footnotes might be
a better general solution in addition to supporting no link encoding
at all.
Ok, I've added now that additional arguments can be added like this:
defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmHTML2TextArguments -string
"--ignore-links"
That won't allow the integer option I suggested (unless it's supported
by `html2text` some day), but it'll allow users to get whatever behavior
is supported by `html2text`.
I've also updated MailMate to use the latest update of `html2text`. It's
also possible to fork and add new options to my fork of
[`html2text`](https://github.com/freron/html2text) or, probably better,
do it to the main fork found
[here](https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text).
Thanks. Instead, I changed "IGNORE_ANCHORS = False" to "IGNORE_ANCHORS
= True" in the relevant config.py and removed config.pyc to assure it
would be rebuilt. I assume that will still be reverted by the next
update, but it is also a bit more universal, applying to all places
where html2text is used.
Just for the record, I don't expect to be calling `html2text` without
going through the file using `MmHTML2TextArguments`.
Thanks for the feedback.
--
Benny
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