On Thursday, 11 August 2005 at 03:10, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-08-10 15:36:16 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > > On Tuesday, 09 August 2005 at 22:27, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > * The Table of Contents is on 2 levels only. > > > > um, feature? Do you really want a TOC entry for each of the hundreds > > of configuration variables? > > Yes, this is useful when searching for variable names. I guess that could be put to a vote. I'm not in favour - maybe what you want is an index. > > > * Layout in Section 2.3.1.1 (Status Flags) is suboptimal: > > > > > > D > > > > > > message is deleted (is marked for deletion) > > > > This seems to be pretty standard layout for definition lists, but I > > don't really love it either. There's an xsl option to use tables > > instead of definition lists for these entries, and it works great with > > w3m, but lynx predictably makes a mess. > > In the html-to-text conversion, CSS would be the solution, but > unfortunately neither lynx nor w3m support them. > > Perhaps html2text[*] from Martin Bayer, with a good html2textrc file? > > * http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/ It supports less HTML than w3m, lynx, and links. It doesn't do a very good job with the manual produced by the docbook xsl I'm using. links, btw, doesn't produce output as good as w3m's, and doesn't do bold/underline anyway. > Otherwise, aren't there XSLT stylesheets to convert DocBook to > plain text directly? I don't know, are there?
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