text to html

[Luke Davis]

Okay.  You have just tossed about some rather general statements, telling
three of us that we are parts of the problem, impeding progress, and so
on.
In our new spirit of cooperation and harmony, I'm going to ask you to get
it to gether and explain what exactly we have said, that makes us such
accessibility killers, before I go and tell you what I think of
generalized, rhetorical, statements.

So, please, elaborate.

Luke

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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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