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.
-h, --help
display this help and exit
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.