Re: Is there a HTML to FAQ converter?

Tom Pfeifer (pfeifer@fokus.gmd.de)
Fri, 21 Jan 1994 15:47:16 +0100

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>>>>mathew@mantis.co.uk (Snakes of Medusa) dared to ask:
>It's very difficult (perhaps impossible) to produce a decent hypertext
>document *automatically* from a linear text document.

Yes, but there are filters for certain text processors, which can
at least translate headings, tables of contents etc.
I know one for FrameMaker.

>I'm planning to re-write my FAQs into HTML, but I want something to
>convert from HTML to formatted ASCII. It must handle things like bullet
>points, paragraph wrapping, and so on. My current plan is to use a WWW
>vt100 browser then cut and paste the text screen by screen into an
>ASCII file, but there must be a better way.

There is. The vt100 browser lynx has a -dump option, which does exactly
what you want. The X-window browser Mosaic has a Save_as command with
the options html, plain ascii, formatted ascii.

The latter has a nice layout, different underlining for headers etc.
It cannot be used in a script, while lynx can, allowing you to add/strip
headers etc. used/not used for posting in the news.

Tom

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