[NTLUG:Discuss] html to text question

[Chris Cox]

brian at pongonova.net wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:16:35PM -0500, Fred James wrote:
> 
>>Any experience in converting html to text, particularly with nested 
>>tables, etc.?
> 
> 
> html2ps does an excellent job with tables...I use gv to view/print the Postscript
> files.  You could always use ps2ascii, but I doubt you'll retain all of the tabular
> formatting.  Worth a try, though.

View the site with w3m and cut and paste.  It does a fairly good job
at handling tables for an ascii browser.