Re: lynx-dev Comparing html rendition of lynx and explorer

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> I have an old bookmark file that I converted from a `bullet' to a
> `definition' file using Microsoft's html editor.  

I hope you are not trying to make Lynx accept that file as a Lynx
bookmarks file - it would probably be invalid as such, so that
removing links wouldn't work right.  (Make a backup copy if you
want to try that.)

> I then compared
> how Microsoft's W98 explorer browser renders this all text html
> file with the lynx version.  I found that, on some, but not all,
> subcategories in the bookmark file, the first line of the category
> goes all the way over the lynx left margin, instead of indenting
> below the category as in the explorer rendition.

I don't know what the markup in your file looks like, or what `bullet'
or `definition' file means to you.  If you think that Lynx renders
some HTML incorrectly, you should include a sample and describe what
you see with Lynx and with that other browser.

> This seems consistent with other web pages where things that should
> start on a separate (possibly indented) line are stuck to the end of
> the previous line.  Which means that, either lynx is wrong, or
> explorer is.
> 
> BTW.  I notice that superscripted digits show up as hatchmark graphics
> characters under the Windows 98 version of lynx.  Does this mean that
> this version is using the wrong translation table?  Because the terminal
> character font used by W95/98 Dos windows has some superscript digits,
> which should be what appears after translation by the lynx character-
> translation ISO to OEM module.

Try to find the right "Display character set" for your situation.
You may also have to specify something for "Assumed document character
set".  Both should be changeable via lynx.cfg, the invoking command line,
or the Options screen.

For MS Windows the actual display character set may differ between
running Lynx in a window and fullscreen (MS's fault), so you have
to find the right settings for the way you actually use Lynx.

   Klaus