>Makefile:
>
>%.faq: %.html %.head
> cp $*.head $*.faq
> /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump $*.html | sed -e 's/ *$$//' >> $*.faq
> chmod a+r $*.faq
My strategy is fairly similar, but I've also done a few things
differently because I want some text-specific indications. For
example, I deal a lot with album titles, so I use underscores "_" to
indicate underlined titles. Also, another person whose FAQ I
transform was using *word* to indicate emphasis, so I changed those to
<STRONG> HTML constructs in the base file, then transform them back
when the final text version is generated. Lastly, to make the final
text file RFC1153-compliant (perhaps someday I shall make it RFC1521-
compliant) I do a few simple transformations on dividing lines and
such. (Maybe I should re-do this whole thing in Perl someday.)
-- John
Makefile:
.SUFFIXES: .html
%:%.html
sed -e 's=</*I>=_=g' -e 's=</*STRONG>=\*=g' \
-e 's=<HR>=-------=' $< > temp.html
lynx -dump temp.html | tail +5 | \
sed \
-e 's/^ -------/----------------------------------------------------------------------/' \
-e 's/^ -------/------------------------------/' \
-e 's/ *$$//' -e 's/ //' | uniq > $@
$(RM) temp.html
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