No guarantees but have you seen this page? http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-docbk.html#h9
Quote" Exporting to plain text DocBook also supports plain-text documents. To render a plain ASCII-text document, use the following command: sgmltools -b txt filename.sgml End quote" Overall it looks like a nice article. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-docbk.html -sp > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Jay Salzman > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [vox-tech] docbook to text > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
