RE: [docbook-apps] Re: DocBook Stylesheets for ASCII conversion?

["David Cramer (Tech Pubs)" <dcramer at motive dot com>]

I'd suggest creating a customization layer for your docbook to html step that renders urls inline without the <a href..>, makes uses section numbers to indicate the target of xrefs, and alters the inline formatting to your liking. I suspect you'd want to suppress the index too. I ended up doing "links -dump $1 | tr -d '\000'" to get rid of some garbage characters. 

"Supply html customization optimized for producing plain text" would be a good feature request.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:27 AM
> To: Michael Smith
> Cc: Derek Hohls; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Re: DocBook Stylesheets for ASCII conversion?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:09:18PM +0900,
>  Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org> wrote 
>  a message of 34 lines which said:
> 
> > The way that most people do that is to first use the 
> standard DocBook
> > stylesheets (either XSL or DSSSL) to convert to HTML, and then
> > post-process that by running it through either lynx, links, 
> or w3m with
> > the -dump option to generate plain text.
> 
> It gives a very poor result:
> 
> 1) No way to have URLs inline, they are postponed until the end of the
> text.
> 
> 2) Links internal to the document are rendered as file: URL with a
> local file name.
> 
> 3) Bold or italic are not rendered with ASCII conventions (*bold* or
> _italic_)
> 
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