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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:57:04 +0300
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TRANS: w3m instead of lynx for plain text from DocBook?
Message-ID:  <19991214225704.B15720@scorpion.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <19991214153042.B66677@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
References:  <19991214153042.B66677@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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hi,

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 03:30:42PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:

> I've been playing with w3m (ports/www/w3m), which is a lynx replacement.
> Apart from being somewhat nicer to use than lynx, and a quarter of the 
> size (231,244 bytes, versus 862,648 bytes), w3m also handles tables (and
> even frames, which we don't use).

Good points, but what about multiple encodings support ? I think it's big
point for non-english users/developers (at least for me)

> [...]
>  ${DOC}.txt: ${DOC}.html
> -       lynx -nolist -dump ${.ALLSRC} > ${.TARGET}
> +       w3m -S -dump ${.ALLSRC} > ${.TARGET}
> [...] 

BROWSER=w3m
BROWSEROPTS=-S -dump

${DOC}.txt: ${DOC}.html
	${BROWSER} ${BROWSEROPTS} ${.ALLSRC} > ${.TARGET}

Comments ?

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