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html2stx(1) General Commands Manual html2stx(1)

NAME

html2stx - convert HTML documents into Stx

SYNOPSIS

html2stx [ file ]

DESCRIPTION

html2stx takes the given file, which should contain an HTML document, and converts it to structured text (Stx). If no file is given, standard input is read instead.

The program does not attempt to convert every possibly convertible piece of markup into Stx. For example, <font> tags are simply ignored. This tends to result in a nice, clean, beautiful document. (If it doesn't, the source document probably does not contain enough information to start with.)

OPTIONS

None.

DIAGNOSTICS

html2stx is a python script and will throw an exception if something goes amiss. In this case, the return value will be non-zero.

SEE ALSO

stx2any (1), Stx-ref.html

BUGS

  • The word wrapping algorithm is probably not very clever.
  • Sometimes there are extra linebreaks in the output.
  • Probably many others.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Panu A. Kalliokoski.

html2stx is derived from the html2text utility by Aaron Swartz. html2text is a utility for converting html into “Markdown” structured text; the changes required to make it work for Stx were done by Panu Kalliokoski.

Panu A. Kalliokoski