Abstract

Some features:

• can swallow multiple empty lines
• set width of output text
• removes empty ALT tags
• set default string for IMG without an ALT tag
• can convert characters and entities between 128 and 159 from the windows1252 charset to meaningful strings in 8859-1. Eg 0x93 is converted to '"'. There are quite a lot of broken documents on the web that use windows1252.
• output can be optimized for ebook reading

INSTALL:

It should compile on any platform with a decent gcc.

DOWNLOAD:

USAGE:

inputfile,- resp. outputfile,-

Replace inputfile with '-' for reading from standard input, likewise outputfile with '-' for writing to standard output.

--version

Reports version number and release date.

-h,--help

Prints a list of the command line options.

-c, --convert-tags

Some of the tags will be converted to special characters.
Eg: "<B>Bold</B> isn't <I>italic</I> isn't <U>underlined</U> isn't <EM>emphasized<EM> but is like <STRONG>strong</STRONG>."
will be output as "*Bold* isn't /italic/ isn't _underlined_ isn't /emphasized/ but is like *strong*."

-p, --palm

This outputs text more suitable for reading on a PDA.
Palm textreader do their own wordwrapping, so the width is set to infinity and the program doesn't rightjustify or center the text.

-w, --width number

The width of the output text.
Default: 72.

-m, --nomicrosoft

The entities from windows1252 that are &#128 - &#159 and their proper names will not be converted.

-i, --defimage string

IMG tags without alt attribute are output as [string].
Default: Image.

-r, --remove-empty-alt

If there is an empty ALT attribute in a IMG tag (eg <IMG href="..." alt='">), don't output '[]'.

-s, --shrinklines

If there are more than two newlines, output only two. There is at most one completely empty line.

-l, --links

Numbers the links in the document and prints the corresponding addresses at the end of the file. Similar to 'lynx -dump'. Note: Relative URIs are not resolved and won't be printed.

-e, --errorlevel number

Increase level of verbosity for error messages.
 0: No error messages
 1: Show unrecognized entities
 2: Show unknown tags
>2: Mostly debugging information

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