txt2html Sample Conversion

I used the following command to convert this document:

txt2html -tf --mail -H '^ *--[\w\s]+-- *$' -a sample.foot sample.txt > sample.html

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From: bozo@clown.wustl.edu (Bozo the Clown)
To: seth@aigeek.com (Seth Golub)
Subject: Re: txt2html
Date: Fri, 6 May 94 10:01:10 -0500

Bozo wrote:
BtC> Can you post an example text file with its html'ed output?
BtC> That would provide a much better first glance at what it does
BtC> without having to look through and see what the perl code does.

Good idea. I'll write something up.

The header lines were kept separate because they looked like mail headers and I have mailmode on. The same thing applies to Bozo's quoted text. Mailmode doesn't screw things up very often, but since most people are usually converting non-mail, it's off by default.

Paragraphs are handled ok. In fact, this one is here just to demonstrate that.

THIS LINE IS VERY IMPORTANT!
(Ok, it wasn't that important)

EXAMPLE HEADER

Since this is the first header noticed (all caps, underlined with an "="), it will be a level 1 header. It gets an anchor named "section-1".

Another example

Yet another example

This header was in the same style, so it was assigned the same header tag. Note the anchor names in the HTML. (You probably can't see them in your current document view.) Its anchor is named "section-1.2". Get the picture?

-- This is a custom header --

You can define your own custom header patterns if you know what your documents look like.

Features of txt2html

• Handles different kinds of lists
  1. Bulleted
  2. Numbered
     • You can nest them as far as you want.
     • It's pretty decent about figuring out which level of list it is supposed to be on.
       • You don't need to change bullet markers to start a new list.
  3. Lettered
     1. Finally handles lettered lists
     2. Upper and lower case both work
        1. Here's an example
        2. I've been meaning to add this for some time.
     3. Of course, HTML can't specify how ordered lists should be

        indicated, so it may be a numbered list in some browsers. (Ok, most browsers)

• Doesn't screw up mail-ish things
• Spots preformated text sometimes

                 It just needs to have enough whitespace in the line.
        Surrounding blank lines aren't necessary.  If it sees enough
        whitespace in a line, it preformats it.  How much is enough?
        Set it yourself at command line if you want.

• You can append a file automatically to all converted files. This is handy for adding signatures to your documents.
• Deals with paragraphs decently.
  • looks for short lines in the middle of paragraphs and keeps them short with the use of breaks (<BR>). How short the lines need to be is configurable.
  • Unhyphenates split words that are in the middle of paragraphs. Let me know if trailing punctuation isn't handled "properly". It should be.
• Puts anchors at all headers and, if you're using the mail header features, at the beginning of each mail message. The anchor names for headings are based on guessed section numbers.
• Groks Mosaic-style "formatted text" headers (like the one below)
• Can hyperlink things according to a dictionary file. The sample dictionary handles URLs like http://www.aigeek.com/ and also shows how to do simpler things such as linking the word txt2html the first time it appeared.

Example of short lines

We're the knights of the round table
We dance whene'er we're able
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.

The signature is everything from the end of this sentence to the </BODY> tag.