Re: AbiWord, Text and HTML??

Hal MacArgle
2006-02-13T14:42:29Z

On 02-13, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:15:36 -0500
> Hal MacArgle <haltec@kvinet.com> 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:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Any suggestions? TIA.
>
> What about "txt2html" ? I imagine it's available for Slackware...
> The Debian/Ubuntu description from "apt-cache show txt2html" is:
>
> Description: Text to HTML converter
> txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML.
> .
> It supports headings, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking,
> and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure
> of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and
> attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML.
> .
> the purpose for this tool is to provide an easier way of converting
> existing text documents to HTML format. txt2html can also be used to aid
> in writing new HTML documents, but there are probably better ways of doing
> that.
>
> Peter

Greetings and thanks for your input.. I have fetched txt2html
and will try it once I get a hands on with PERL.. As mentioned to
Ray, there is no .tgz package on w3.linuxpackages, that I could
find.. I tried Slack 10.1; maybe I should have spent more time, eh??

Meanwhile we have a work around but an easier way would be
nice... Thanks again..