Re: lynx rendering fonts
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:56:38PM +0100, Robert Land wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:47:29PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
>
> > That's a Pigeonism, based on the thought of "bollocks to all the fancy
> > stuff". What it does is create a file /tmp/cleandoc.html, based on
> > dodgydoc.html but with all the <B>, </B>, <EM> and </EM> removed.
> >
> > sed - stream editor
> > -e - next argument is a string describing some action
> > s - substitute
> > / - this...
> > <B> - ...string here...
> > / - ...for this one...
> > / - ...oh, it wasn't there, use a null string
> > g - do this for every <B> in the line
>
> What a nice explaination - it does give me some insight
> into this topic - thank you very much!
Why, thank _you_!
> > > Did you try out another background for COLOR:0?
> > > I have gray instead of black but it is overridden!
> > >
> > > Robert
> >
> > Just tried blue, and it works. I'm using /etc/lynx.cfg to set options
> > globally as I'm the only user and it's easy that way. I've just
> > experimented with creating a ~/lynx.cfg or ~/.lynx.cfg, and lynx
> > doesn't see that unless I use the -cfg option. Which I find odd. Maybe
> > that's what's happening to you? Maybe there's some funny convention
> > about the name of a personal lynx.cfg of which both of us are unaware?
> >
> > Pigeon
>
> I'm using the same file, blue works fine, but gray and brown
> render to black. This is quite puzzling because I do have
> 24bit colordepth in this session.
Ah. Ug. You're using lynx from within X? This may be related to X
colour maps, about which I know nothing. Sorry. I use lynx from the
console myself.
Having said that, I've just experimented again, and (on the console)
brown works but gray doesn't. And I have no idea why!
Pigeon
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