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[docbook-apps] Re: DocBook Stylesheets for ASCII conversion?
- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic dot fr>
- To: Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>
- Cc: Derek Hohls <DHohls at csir dot co dot za>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:27:23 +0200
- Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: DocBook Stylesheets for ASCII conversion?
- Organization: NIC France
- References: <s06bd1e6.035@cs-emo.csir.co.za> <20040401070852.GB2976@zennihon_yopparai_rengo>
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_)
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