i'm trying to convert docbook sgml to text, and am having a terrible time of it:
i tried using sgml2txt, but it complained that it didn't know how to handle docbook. it suggested that i use jade. ok. reading through jade's help files, it appears that jade doesn't know how to convert sgml to text. this is starting to feel like UC davis's bureacracy. ok. i can convert docbook to html (obviously), so i try html2text. the results have wierd underscoring things in it. reading through the docs, there's a -nobs option which produces pure text. ok. i try html2text with -nobs. the results stink. the formating is all wrong. there *should* be a blank line between an <H[1-4]> line and the following text. verbatim text is all screwed up. ok. after some searching, i find 'man html2textrc'. yuck. i _really_ don't want to read through this. the rc file is complicated. i don't want to spend this amount of time for something as simple as converting html to text. i shouldn't have to spend more than 5 minutes on such a simple operation. ok. i can convert man pages to text, so i use docbook-to-man and convert the sgml file to a man page. the results are worse than awful. it's completely unreadable. are you feeling my pain yet? this should be simple, and it's turning out to be a nightmare. does anyone have any ideas on how to convert a docbook file to text? alternatively, if anyone has an .html2textrc file suitable for FAQ style documents, i'd love to have a copy of your dotfile. pete -- GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
