# HTML-FormatExternal
**Repository Path**: mirrors_gitpan/HTML-FormatExternal
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: HTML-FormatExternal
- **Description**: Read-only release history for HTML-FormatExternal
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: GPL-3.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
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- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-10-20
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-29
## Categories & Tags
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## README
Copyright 2009, 2013 Kevin Ryde
This file is part of HTML-FormatExternal.
HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any
later version.
HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with HTML-FormatExternal. If not, see .
HTML-FormatExternal lets you turn HTML into plain text using one of
the browsing/formatting programs,
elinks http://elinks.cz/
html2text http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/
links http://links.twibright.com/
lynx http://lynx.isc.org/
netrik http://netrik.sourceforge.net/
vilistextum http://bhaak.dyndns.org/vilistextum/
w3m http://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m
zen http://www.nocrew.org/software/zen/
The programming interface is compatible with HTML::FormatText and
HTML::FormatText::WithLinks, so you can fairly easily switch how you
want the formatting done.
The programs vary in things like link printing style, levels of
support for non-ascii input or output, table output, or HTML 4
constructs. The compatible programming interface means you can give a
couple of them a try to find what you like most or are most familiar
with etc.
http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html