This is about the format of the small series of posts about Anelok I make to the list. They are kind of a newsletter for the project.
I love plain text. It's easy to write, doesn't need fancy browsers to display, looks more or less the same no matter what you use to visualize it, and you can do a lot with it. I also love to illustrate things with pictures or diagrams. Alas, the best I can do with plain text, besides ASCII-art, is to include URLs that point to these pictures. Unfortunately, this means that the reader has to stop reading and click on the link (or copy and paste the link into a browser) to see the picture. But maybe we can do a little better. I don't like markup languages, since they tend to be overly ambitious, while all I want is to make it a little easier to access these pictures. So I came up with a script that HTMLizes mails, converts anything that looks like a link into a HTML hyperlink, adds a small preview image for each image that's linked from the mail, and adds a few minor enhancements to make the structure of the mini-thread clearer. The (unfinished) script is here: https://gitlab.com/anelok/anelok/blob/master/snippet/snippet.plhttps://gitlab.com/anelok/anelok/blob/master/snippet/snippet.pl As an example, I converted the last two threads on the list with it. This is the "power-only fixture" etc. thread: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/snippets/20170410.html This is the "Mk 3 running on battery" thread: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/anelok/snippets/20170420.html What do you think ? Hate it ? Love it ? Meh ? - Werner _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
