NAME¶

vilistextum - html to ascii converter

SYNOPSIS¶

vilistextum [OPTIONS] [inputfile |-] [outputfile | -]

DESCRIPTION¶

vilistextum is a html to ascii converter specifically programmed to get the best out of incorrect html.

OPTIONS¶

inputfile,- resp. outputfile,-

replace inputfile with '-' for reading from standard input, likewise outputfile with '-' for writing to standard output.

-a, --no-alt

don't output anything for IMG tags even if they have an ALT attribute. Implies --no-image.

-c, --convert-tags

some tags will be converted to special characters.

-e, --errorlevel NUMBER

increase level of verbosity for error messages (0: No error messages).

-i, --defimage STRING

IMG tags without alt attribute are output as [STRING].

-l, --links

numbers the links in the document and creates footnotes of each link at the end of the file.

-k, --links-inline

print the links directly after the html tag.

-m, --dont-convert-characters

don't convert the entities from windows1252 (€-Ÿ and their proper entity names)

-n, --no-image

don't output [Image] for IMG tags that have no ALT attribute.

-p, --palm

output text more suitable for reading on a PDA.

-r, --remove-empty-alt

if there is an empty ALT attribute in a IMG tag (eg <IMG href="..." alt="">), don't output '[]'.

-s, --shrink-lines [NUMBER]

if there are more than NUMBER empty lines, output only NUMBER. Default: 1.

-t, --no-title

don't output title.

-w, --width NUMBER

maximum line width.

MULTIBYTE OPTIONS (Only available if compiled with multibyte support)¶

-u, --output-utf-8

instead of the character set of the html document, everything will be output as utf-8.

-x, --translit

use the //TRANSLIT feature of libiconv. Consult the iconv manual for details.

-y, --charset CHARSET

if the HTML document doesn't provide a character set in the meta tags, use CHARSET.

LIMITATIONS¶

The rendering of tables is not very good.

The handling of OL is incomplete. The program treats it as UL and more than 10 nested lists confuse it.

Text is never justified.

REPORTING BUGS¶

Please report bugs to <bhaak@gmx.net>.

AUTHOR¶

Vilistextum was written by Patric Mueller <bhaak@gmx.net> and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.

SEE ALSO¶

iconv(3), lynx(1), links(1), w3m(1)