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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  (€-Ÿ  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)

                                  22 OCT 2006