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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Re: DocBook Stylesheets for ASCII conversion?
I'd suggest creating a customization layer for your docbook to html step that renders urls inline without the <a href..>, makes uses section numbers to indicate the target of xrefs, and alters the inline formatting to your liking. I suspect you'd want to suppress the index too. I ended up doing "links -dump $1 | tr -d '\000'" to get rid of some garbage characters. "Supply html customization optimized for producing plain text" would be a good feature request. David > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr] > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:27 AM > To: Michael Smith > Cc: Derek Hohls; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: DocBook Stylesheets for ASCII conversion? > > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:09:18PM +0900, > Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org> wrote > a message of 34 lines which said: > > > The way that most people do that is to first use the > standard DocBook > > stylesheets (either XSL or DSSSL) to convert to HTML, and then > > post-process that by running it through either lynx, links, > or w3m with > > the -dump option to generate plain text. > > It gives a very poor result: > > 1) No way to have URLs inline, they are postponed until the end of the > text. > > 2) Links internal to the document are rendered as file: URL with a > local file name. > > 3) Bold or italic are not rendered with ASCII conventions (*bold* or > _italic_) > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a post to > docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org, or visit > http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/. > >
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