> > What do people use to convert html pages to a legible formatted text
> > representation?
> 
> I find "links" is very good for that.

It's screen rendering looks very good with the one page I could only
handle with netscape 4 yesterday. No kudos though for making
tab-completion unsable by requiring file://`pwd`/file instead of just
./file. I'd also need to hammer it into using latin-1 instead of 7bit
output. The docs are rather insubstantial - big question: how do I get
the output into a file? If I wanted screen display, konqueror does that
just fine.

links <./file  DON'T EVER DO THAT!

links file://... >out   sits there waiting forever for input.


> http://www.softmaker.de/
> 
> Seemed to work quite well on a simple page.

Interesting - didn't know there was another commercial word processor
for Linux (the office version is "under development"). Though I don't
object to purchasing commercial software (if it's good), spending
$70/$80 on a word processor with the only interesting function of
converting html to text doesn't appeal so much.

Volker

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