text to html

[Janina Sajka]

So, Luke, you're admitting that you're part of the problem on the web,
and not part of the solution?


Luke Davis writes:
> From: Luke Davis <ldavis at shellworld.net>
> 
> I would certainly like a text2html converter.  In one particular case of
> many...
> 
> Every couple months, I get an entire store catalog in text form, which I
> am supposed to place on the web site of said store.  As it stands, I
> mostly just incapsulate the entire thing in pre elements.  If I were to
> mark it up by hand, it would take quite some time.  All it really needs,
> are paragraphs and line breaks.  Stylesheets can handle much of the rest.
> 
> One of these days, I'll get sick enough of it to write an app for the
> purpose.
> 
> Luke
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Guy Abandon. wrote:
> 
> > The tool I did would enforce the <br>  markers or <p> and find obvious
> > urls and make active links out of them and all manner of things if you
> > scribbled in a simple text editor and want it to form the basis of a
> > quick web page.
> >
> > Others wrote similar utilities under DOS too, in the early days of the
> > web of course and they didn't get developed very far.  As you more or
> > less stated, there's not far you can take something like that.  But
> > the one I did was useful to me. I've still got a set of web pages that
> > were ran off out of a batch file using said txt2htm utility.
> >
> > Now if I thought there was a Pascal compiler for Linux....    I admit
> > to preferring the Pascal language to C!
> >
> > GA!
> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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