From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: AbiWord, Text and HTML?? Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:38:13 -0500 Message-ID: <20060213143813.GA1135@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> References: <20060212181536.GA2276@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> <43EFB2C5.5020409@comarre.com> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43EFB2C5.5020409@comarre.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 02-12, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Hal MacArgle wrote: > >Greetings: A problem importing a previously composed ascii text file > >with jstar (joe) or, probably, any standard Linux text editor: > > > >I had a single need to convert this to html and found that AbiWord > >was quite easy: > > > >$ abiword --to=html filename.txt > filename.html. > > > >The trouble is; viewing filename.html with lynx or links it's double > >spaced.. I thought 'no problem,' we have the standard end of line > >thingy so I'll just edit filename.html substituting a space for the > >

entries... Oh yeah--grin--lynx and links still view it double > >spaced.. I tried several other 'fixes' to no avail.. Some crash and > >burn.. > > > >Retyping the entire ascii text file into AbiWord and saving as a html > >file is fine, but I much prefer composing all files with a CLI > >editor.. Call me old fashioned?? Whatever.. I used WordStar for too > >many years I guess... (Failing eyes doesn't help) > > > >Any suggestions? TIA. > > This sounds like a famirly conventional EoL (Cr vs LF) problem to me. > You should look at the problem file in some hex editor (e.g., hexer, > hexedit) and see what actual characters are at the ends of the lines. > > Or, if you like, send me (off-list) a short sample (filename.txt and the > corresponding filename.html) and I'll take a look at it. > > Yeah, I used Wordstar too. These days it's vi on Linux and WordPad on > Windows. Occasionally OpenOffice, but only when I must. > > Guess us fogies have to stick together. We're outnumbered... This is a _real_ education.. Slackware bundles 'hexdump' but, using it, I long for the old Norton hex editor from Dos, that screen printed ascii as well as hex.. To make matters worse; hexdump lists in groups of four characters in _little endian_ notation.. That was a head scratcher... Worst of all; where I expected an 0x0a/0x0d combination, it was a mere 0x20??? Too much automation for this cat.. If I replaced all the SP's, I'd really be in the soup... There has to be some shenanigans in the way I did it.. BTW; Jstar (Joe) uses WordStar commands as does 'E3.' IIRC though there was a problem with the .deb version I tried on a Woody machine.. Forget now.. Cracking the HTML book I decided to bite the bullet and prepare a html template with the minimum entries and go from there, even though it means many

combinations.. Meanwhile Peter suggested txt2html that I fetched, but it's PERL and linuxpackages has no Slackware .tgz that I could find.. The README with txt2html.tar.gz means I, now, have to crack the PERL books... Appreciate!! The learning curve is alive and well.. -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs