SYNOPSIS

use HTML::FormatText::Zen;
$text = HTML::FormatText::Zen->format_file ($filename);
$text = HTML::FormatText::Zen->format_string ($html_string);
$formatter = HTML::FormatText::Zen->new;
$tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
$text = $formatter->format ($tree);

DESCRIPTION

"HTML::FormatText::Zen" turns HTML into plain text using the "zen" program.

<http://www.nocrew.org/software/zen/>

The module interface is compatible with formatters like "HTML::FormatText", but all parsing etc is done by zen.

See "HTML::FormatExternal" for the formatting functions. The margins options work but nothing else.

"rightmargin"

As of zen version 0.2.3 there is no right margin option.

"input_charset", "output_charset"

As of zen version 0.2.3 the input charset is always latin-1 and output is always latin-1. Entities in the input seem to be truncated to 8-bits for the output.

HOME PAGE

<http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html>

LICENSE

Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde

HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with HTML-FormatExternal. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.