Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I just got the following from rss2email: > > > ![Martin > > wearing a plant crown][1] > > After the conference on Monday, ... > > URL: http://www.cyrius.com/journal/2005/03/01#another-crown-scorpion > > The problem here is that the ALT tag of the image is split across two > lines even there is really no reason to do that. While I split it > across two lines in the HTML, I don't think rss2email should display > the newline. At least lynx doesn't.
I do think I've seen this effect used for ascii art in alt tags. Not a
good idea or portable of course.
Here's a very simple patch to avoid it (pardon my crummy python coding):
Index: html2text.py
===================================================================
--- html2text.py (revision 11107)
+++ html2text.py (working copy)
@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@
if attrs.has_key('src'):
attrs['href'] = attrs['src']
alt = attrs.get('alt', '')
+ alt = re.sub('\n', ' ', alt)
i = self.previousIndex(attrs)
if i is not None:
attrs = self.a[i]
--
see shy jo
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