> It is really easy to get a good text version from the html by use of
> the "lynx" text browser's -dump capability. It is good enough to form
> the body of my post with no modifications - but I do go in at the end
> and remove some double spacing which it inserts in a list of names.
> What lynx does is to solve the problem of handling links - it numbers
> them and puts them in a numbered list at the end. So I don't need to
> put in both the anchor and the text of the URL at each URL.
The -nolist option prevents lynx from printing the references and the
list. To me they're simply distracting, and I use the literal URL as
the label anyway, so there's no problem in text versions. About the
only thing that lynx doesn't do that I need is table formatting.
-- Robert Kiesling Linux FAQ Maintainer rkiesling@mainmatter.com
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