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RE: DocBook to man pages XSL


> -----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
 


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