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RE: DocBook to man pages XSL
- From: "Bradford, Denis" <denisb at rational dot com>
- To: "'kevin at kevindumpscore dot com'" <kevin at kevindumpscore dot com>,"Bradford, Denis" <denisb at rational dot com>
- Cc: 'Bob Stayton' <bobs at caldera dot com>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:18:35 -0500
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook to man pages XSL
- List-id: <docbook-apps.lists.oasis-open.org>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Conder
>
> > So for now we're using Gavin Spearhead's html2text, an
> unsupported freeware
> > Windows app that's reasonably configurable and does a nice
> job with tables.
>
> I use lynx in Windows at work. It works like a charm:
> "lynx -dump
> -nolist in.html > out.txt"
>
Thanks for the lynx tip - I didn't know that. I did try it, and IMHO,
html2text is slightly more configurable for html->text conversion (which is
all it does) and does a better job with tables.
I'd prefer something even more configurable & transparent - perl or xsl -
but since formatted text (esp. tables) is hard to script, I'm grateful for
what others have done.
Denis