The tool I did would enforce the <br> markers or <p> and find obvious urls and make active links out of them and all manner of things if you scribbled in a simple text editor and want it to form the basis of a quick web page. Others wrote similar utilities under DOS too, in the early days of the web of course and they didn't get developed very far. As you more or less stated, there's not far you can take something like that. But the one I did was useful to me. I've still got a set of web pages that were ran off out of a batch file using said txt2htm utility. Now if I thought there was a Pascal compiler for Linux.... I admit to preferring the Pascal language to C! GA!