VILISTEXTUM(1)

NAME
vilistextum - html to ascii converter

SYNOPSIS
vilistextum [OPTIONS] [inputfile |-] [outputfile | -]

DESCRIPTION
vilistextum is a html to ascii converter specifically programmed to get the best out of incorrect html.

OPTIONS

inputfile,- resp. outputfile,-
    replace inputfile with '-' for reading from standard input, likewise outputfile with '-' for writing to standard output.

-a, --no-alt
    don't output anything for IMG tags even if they have an ALT attribute. Implies --no-image.

-c, --convert-tags
    some tags will be converted to special characters.

-e, --errorlevel NUMBER
    increase level of verbosity for error messages (0: No error messages).

-i, --defimage STRING
    IMG tags without alt attribute are output as [STRING].

-l, --links
    numbers the links in the document and creates footnotes of each link at the end of the file.

-k, --links-inline
    print the links directly after the html tag.

-m, --dont-convert-characters
    don't convert the entities from windows1252 (&#128;-&#159; and their proper entity names)

-n, --no-image
    don't output [Image] for IMG tags that have no ALT attribute.

-p, --palm
    output text more suitable for reading on a PDA.

-r, --remove-empty-alt
    if there is an empty ALT attribute in a IMG tag (eg <IMG href="..." alt="">), don't output '[]'.

-s, --shrink-lines [NUMBER]
    if there are more than NUMBER empty lines, output only NUMBER. Default: 1.

-t, --no-title
    don't output title.

-w, --width NUMBER
    maximum line width.

-h, --help
display this help and exit

-v, --version
    output version information and exit

MULTIBYTE OPTIONS (Only available if compiled with multibyte support)

-u, --output-utf-8
    instead of the character set of the html document, everything will be output as utf-8.

-x, --translit
    use the //TRANSLIT feature of libiconv. Consult the iconv manual for details.

-y, --charset CHARSET
    if the HTML document doesn't provide a character set in the meta tags, use CHARSET.

LIMITATIONS
The rendering of tables is not very good. The handling of OL is incomplete. The program treats it as UL and more than 10 nested lists confuse it. Text is never justified.

REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs to <bhaak@gmx.net>.

AUTHOR
Vilistextum was written by Patric Mueller <bhaak@gmx.net> and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.

SEE ALSO
iconv(3), lynx(1), links(1), w3m(1)