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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Sat May 20 07:58:44 2023 +0000 (15 months ago) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/html2text/description.txt Sat May 20 07:58:44 2023 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ 1.4 +Html2text is a command line utility, written in C++, that converts HTML 1.5 +documents into plain text. 1.6 + 1.7 +Each HTML document is loaded from a location indicated by a URI or read 1.8 +from standard input, and formatted into a stream of plain text characters 1.9 +that is written to standard output or into an output-file. 1.10 +The input-URI may specify a remote site, from that the documents are 1.11 +loaded via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). 1.12 + 1.13 +The program is able to preserve the original positions of table fields, 1.14 +allows you to set the screen width (to a given number of output 1.15 +characters), and accepts also syntactically incorrect input (attempting 1.16 +to interpret it "reasonably"). Boldface and underlined text is rendered 1.17 +by default with backspace sequences (which is particulary usefull when 1.18 +piping the program's output into "less" or an other pager). All rendering 1.19 +properties can largely be costomised trough an RC-file.