On Aug 5, 16:39, Edward Franks wrote:
>
> I must be odd then :), because I pull up both the HTML and the plain
>text versions in my programmer's editor and just edit both at the same
>time. Granted I do a lot of cut and pasting, but this way I get the
>control over both versions and have then exactly the way I want them.
I maintain my FAQ sources in HTML and use a combination of Perl hack
and Netscape -saveAs to convert it to plain text. The Perl hack
massages the source, sends it to Netscape which formats it, then the
hack massages the Netscape output (to remove extra blank lines as
someone previously mentioned as well as other minor cleanups). I had
been using Lynx but Netscape did a better job of formatting. It's a
bummer to have to rely on Netscape. So it goes.
I will probably try w3m just to see how well it formats HTML to text.
-- John
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