Re: automatic HTML to ASCII conversion

Alan Hamilton (alan@ursa-major.spdcc.com)
Thu, 16 Jun 94 13:20:52 -0400

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Lutz Prechelt <prechelt@ira.uka.de> wrote:
> I have converted "my" FAQ (comp.ai.neural-nets) to HTML. The HTML
> version is the only one that I maintain and I generate a text version
> from it using the "File: Save As" function of Mosaic.
>
> My question is: Is there a nice way to do this automatically, i.e.
> without starting an interactive program and clicking buttons ? I
> would like to only edit the HTML version and have the text version
> generated by my posting script automatically.

I use 'www -n' to convert from HTML to ASCII.

It runs from a perl script which:

o Retrieves titles from .html files and inserts them in references
(so you don't have to manually maintein titles in multiple places)
o Inserts a level-1 header with the text of the title in each .html file
o Packages related .html files (based on prefix) into one .txt file
o Uses 'a2ps' to create a postscript version of the .txt file
o Prepares an ftp script to upload the files to the server, including
any inlined local images.

Anyone who wants it, drop me a line.

-Alan Hamilton <alan@spdcc.com>

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