HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as text

NAME

HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as text

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

SYNOPSIS

 require HTML::FormatText;
 $html = parse_htmlfile("test.html");
 $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50);
 print $formatter->format($html);

DESCRIPTION

The HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain latin1 text. All character attributes (bold/italic/underline) are ignored. Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented.

You might specify the following parameters when constructing the formatter:

leftmargin (alias lm)
The column of the left margin. The default is 3.

rightmargin (alias rm)
The column of the right margin. The default is 72.

SEE ALSO

the HTML::Formatter manpage

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>

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