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6 HTML::FormatText::Links - format HTML as plain text using links
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9 use HTML::FormatText::Links;
10 $text = HTML::FormatText::Links->format_file ($filename);
11 $text = HTML::FormatText::Links->format_string ($html_string);
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13 $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Links->new (rightmargin => 60);
14 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
15 $text = $formatter->format ($tree);
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18 "HTML::FormatText::Links" turns HTML into plain text using the "links"
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21 <http://links.twibright.com/>
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23 The module interface is compatible with formatters like
24 "HTML::FormatText", but all parsing etc is done by links. See
25 "HTML::FormatExternal" for the formatting functions and options, all of
26 which are supported by "HTML::FormatText::Links", with the following
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30 In past versions of links without the "-html-margin" option you
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35 An output charset requires Links 2.0 or higher (or some such
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38 output though, for example smiley face U+263A becomes ":-)".
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40 Links can be a bit picky about its charset names. This module attempts
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48 <http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html>
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51 Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde
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53 HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
54 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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56 your option) any later version.
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58 HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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63 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
64 with HTML-FormatExternal. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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68perl v5.34.0 2021-07-22 HTML::FormatText::Links(3)