[SLUG] Re: Tools for documentation.

[Angus Lees <gusl@nospam.cse.unsw.edu.au>]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:13:17PM +1000, Chuck Dale wrote:
> Actually the advanced "text processor" which the LDP use to create text
> documents when required is actually a remarkable
> 
> $ lynx -dump howto.html > howto.txt
> 
> On the HTML output from Jade...

(just in case anyone cares..)

its slightly more sophisticated than that:

 jade -V nochunks <other args>
 lynx -dump

the "nochunks" puts it all on the same web pages (and changes a few
other things, depending on the stylesheet)


i much prefer:
 jade -V nochunks <blah> | w3m -T text/html -dump

since w3m does a *much* better job of tables (and accepts stdin)


> Quick hacks are always the best. ?

i'd really like a troff backend to do this. troff generates really
nice text  (which sounds silly for some reason..)

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 - Gus
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