TXT2HTML(1) V1.25 TXT2HTML(1) 6 MAY 1999 NAME txt2html - TXT2HTML SYNOPSIS txt2html DESCRIPTION Txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML. It supports headings, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML. FEATURES It's a simple filter that takes a plain text file via stdin or one that you name, and outputs HTML via stdout. If you are in a standard Unix shell or MS-DOS, you would do something like this: txt2html someTextFile > yourNewHTMLfile I'm still lagging on documentation, but undocumented features are better than no features at all. My hope is that the average user won't need to use any options. Here are some ways of learning how to use txt2html. - txt2html --help This will give you a list of options. You probably won't ever need to use more than a few of these. Most of them are for tweaking various features. Most text files I've tried this on convert decently without tweaking, but I'm a big fan of configurability, so I threw tons of options in. - Look at the sample down below. It's not a guide in how to use txt2html, but it will show you what sort of things it can handle. - Read the Configurable Options section at the beginning of the script. That's where you'll find a more complete description of all the options, as well as the default values for everything. - "Use the source." I don't recommend this route for the faint of heart. MORE INFORMATION For more information see "http://www.thehouse.org/txt2html/" PROGRAM AUTHOR Seth Golub <seth@thehouse.org> - 1 - Formatted: April 26, 2024 TXT2HTML(1) V1.25 TXT2HTML(1) 6 MAY 1999 MAN PAGE Mehdi Lavasani <lavasani@csc.liv.ac.uk> - 2 - Formatted: April 26, 2024