html2text - An advanced HTML to text converter
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txt2html - Text to HTML converter
This package has been orphaned, since 2004-03-13 as v2.23-1.
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documented on: 2005.02.20
Usage
html2text -o outfile.txt <file>
lynx <url> | html2text -ascii -nobs -width 76 -style pretty | less
Info
An advanced HTML to text converter
Source
Help
Support
Quick Help
html2text [ -unparse | -check ] [ -debug-scanner ] [ -debug-parser ] \
[ -rcfile <file> ] [ -style ( compact | pretty ) ] [ -width <w> ] \
[ -o <file> ] [ -nobs ] [ -ascii ] [ <input-url> ] ...
Formats HTML document(s) read from <input-url> or STDIN and generates ASCII
text.
-rcfile <file> Read <file> instead of "$HOME/.html2textrc"
-style compact Create a "compact" output format (default)
-style pretty Insert some vertical space for nicer output
-width <w> Optimize for screen widths other than 79
-o <file> Redirect output into <file>
-nobs Do not use backspaces for boldface and underlining
-ascii Use plain ASCII for output instead of ISO-8859-1
documented on: 2005.02.21
enhance request
Hi, I like your program very much!
> One feature request: Could you add some URL handling features? The
> html2textrc(5) feature is really nice, but it lacks the ability to handle
> urls. I.e., I'm hoping to use this tool to convert web pages to wiki format,
> which means I want to be able to define that urls be translated in plain
> text also. E.g., I hope I can use html2text to tranlaste urls into wiki
> format like, !http://www.google.com[] This Link points to google?, or in
> DokuWiki? format -- [ http://www.google.com | This Link points to google
> ]]. Thanks.
Think of html2text as a filter. It aims to show you what you would see if
you loaded the file in a grafical browser, without being a browser. The
arguments of HTML elements are not interpreted, with exception for "IMG
ALT", which is used to give a good substitute for images that cannot be
represented in plain text media. While I understand that it might be
desiderable for Wiki source code pre-processing to have the "A HREF"
argument contents displayed verbatim, this would completely break with the
idea of a filter. html2text is expected not to bother about markup as long
as it does not contain any structural information (so called logical markup,
think of headings, lists and so on). "A" does not.
> One suggestion: according to the manual, "html2text will not follow
> redirections (HTTP 301/307). Proxy servers are not supported." This turns
> html2text to a very limited use. Why not just remove all url featching code,
> and rely on cat/lynx to feed html files to html2text? I.e., do it the unix
> way -- "do only one thing, but do it the best". In fact, in my alias, I
> always use "lynx -source" to pipe stuff to html2text -- I don't want that my
> code sometimes work, but sometimes don't (I think redirections happen quite
> often on the web).
As already stated in the documentation, the HTTP implementation in html2text
is rather basic: All it does is more or less to issue a "GET" request. It's
more a gimmick than a core function. But that's not sufficient for removing
it completely and for disappointing all of the other users that might find
it usefull. Thus, if the HTTP engine in html2text does not fit your needs,
just don't use it.
I am looking for a utility which will turn all of my lower case HTML
(written in, say, notepad) into upper case and perhaps indent it too. Does
anyone know if such a program exists?
Can anyone recommend an HTML 'beautifier'?
You can user Dave Raggett's "tidy" to force all tags into upper case, or
lower case. Actually, this tool can do so much more to beautify your
code, for me it's a must-have.
Can anyone recommend an HTML 'beautifier'?
> I would just like to thank Matthias and all the others who have pointed me
> in the direction of 'Tidy'. From what I have read, it is does exactly the
> sort of thing I am looking for. My problem now is figuring out how it
> works! Excuse me for being thick, but the blurb on www.w3.org about the
> program is virtually incomprehensible for a novice! All that stuff about
> stderr and stdout doesn't mean a thing to me.
Download tidy, and save it in one of the directories which are on your
default path.
In it, connect to the directory where your HTML files are by typing
Now, for each file you want to work on, type
Where -i means 'indent'; -u means 'upper-case tags', and -m means
'modify in place'.
Can anyone recommend an HTML 'beautifier'?
> works! Excuse me for being thick, but the blurb on www.w3.org about the
> program is virtually incomprehensible for a novice! All that stuff about
> stderr and stdout doesn't mean a thing to me.
If you really want to do more of this web stuff, you might as well get
used to the technobabble right now. There is more to come :-).
However… HTML-Kit ( http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ ) has a nice
graphic frontend for tidy, including the lowercase/uppercase thing.
Programs for other platforms are mentioned at the "tidy"- homepage.
Can anyone recommend an HTML 'beautifier'?
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
Date: 2000/03/07
>I am looking for a utility which will turn all of my lower case HTML
>(written in, say, notepad) into upper case and perhaps indent it too.
>Does anyone know if such a program exists?
With the upcoming shift from html to xml/xhtml I would advice against
converting your elements to upper case.
XHTML is case sensitive, and only lower-case is allowed.
However, if you find documents hard to read with only lowercase, I would
advice that you got an editor with source highlightning. One such Freeware
program I recommend for the windows platform is 1stPage 2000, downloadable
from <URL:http://www.evrsoft.com/> It also has a tool called HTML tidy
which will convert case, and fix indentation for your html-documents.
If you're just after tidy, it can be downloaded for several platforms from
<URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/>. It can fix other problems
with the html, such as nesting errors, word-generated html.
Newsgroups: alt.html.writers
Date: 2000/01/17
>I am searching an HTML Sourcecode Beautifier, "tidy" which i got on the w3c
>site doesnt work really, if the prog has also a function to check the code
>it would be fine.
Perhaps if you could tell us which aspect of tidy doesn't work for you
we might be able to offer some suggestions.
HTML Beautifier
Hi. Request canceled, I just found a tool that fits my needs perfectly.
Thank you for your attendance.
HTML Beautifier
Note, htmltidy in freshmeat.net *is* Raggett's tidy.
Actually, the most up to date development branch is at
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
txtfmt is an ASCII text formatter utility which formats XML
documents into ASCII text. It is most useful for formatting e-mail
messages. It handles paragraphs, bullets, tables, and more.
Source
Matthew Campbell - April 16th 1999, 03:20 EST
Usage
rm -f err; ls *htm | doeach.pl 'tidy -wrap 72 -raw @_' @g ~+1/@_ 2@g@g err
tidy --show-warnings no --force-output yes -quiet -indent -raw -wrap ${hfrm:-5000} -asxml --write-back yes
tidy --write-back yes --show-warnings no --clean yes --force-output yes -wrap 5000 l-grub-1-1.html
tidy -quiet -upper -asxml -numeric -indent --show-warnings no --clean yes --force-output yes -wrap 5000 /home/tong/try/grub/l-grub/l-grub-1-1.html > $tf.grub.htm
Description
HTML TIDY is a free utility to fix mistakes made while editing HTML
and to automatically tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out
markup. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup
generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can
help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making
your pages more accessible to people with disabilities.
Source
build & Installation
Run
rm -f err; ls *htm | doeach.pl 'tidy -wrap 72 -raw @_' @g ~+1/@_ 2@g@g err
tidy nowhere.htm
tidy 4dos650.htm
tidy -f err 4dos650.htm
documented on: Sat 11-14-98 22:38:32
Texi2html
texi2html is a Perl script that converts GNU's Texinfo files to HTML.
The program takes Texinfo files (and not info ones) and produces a set of HTML files. The quality of the output is close to the
printed output and is much better than an info->HTML gateway.
old page
new page
Texi2html's current Homepage
Texi2html is a Perl script that converts Texinfo to HTML.
http://texinfo.org/
http://w3c.org/MarkUp/
Lionel Cons's Texi2html page has much more information.
http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/dis/texi2html/
You can download the latest release version from
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~obachman/Texi2html/
Last modified: Mon Nov 22 14:06:17 MET 1999
documented on: 1999.11.23 Tue 10:02:01
Linux native solution
GTK+ XML viewer
.. gxmlviewer is an xml viewer … License: GNU General Public License (GPL);
Natural Language: English; Operating System: Linux; …
Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0 betas for Linux and Solaris
New Linux tools: Adobe SVG viewer and Quick … Users of the Linux platform
will be glad to hear of the release of Adobe's SVG viewer: also JXML's Quick
Java/XML toolkit now has explicit Linux support. …
Java solution: XML Viewer
alphaWorks … UNIX scripts are included. What is XML Viewer for Java TM ? XML
Viewer for Java is a Java application …
Java solution: XML Viewer
XML Viewer review
By: IBM alphaWorks
Version: 15.Sep.99 release
Platforms: Java
Category: XML browsers
Info: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmlviewer
XML Viewer is a simple Java application that can display both raw XML
source and a tree view of any well-formed XML document. XML Viewer is also
DTD-aware and can show DTDs as well and show the declaration of any
element or attribute.
XML Viewer
Expat
Info
Source
A reference manual is available in the doc/reference.html in this
distribution.
Build, Test run & Installation
Steps
./configure --prefix=/opt
pkg=expat-1.95.1
make -n install | tee /export/pub/installs/logs/$pkg.log.0
make install | tee /export/pub/installs/logs/$pkg.log.1
documented on: 2000.12.21 Thu 20:24:24
