So, Luke, you're admitting that you're part of the problem on the web, and not part of the solution? Luke Davis writes: > From: Luke Davis <ldavis at shellworld.net> > > I would certainly like a text2html converter. In one particular case of > many... > > Every couple months, I get an entire store catalog in text form, which I > am supposed to place on the web site of said store. As it stands, I > mostly just incapsulate the entire thing in pre elements. If I were to > mark it up by hand, it would take quite some time. All it really needs, > are paragraphs and line breaks. Stylesheets can handle much of the rest. > > One of these days, I'll get sick enough of it to write an app for the > purpose. > > Luke > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Guy Abandon. wrote: > > > 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! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
