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List:       subversion-dev
Subject:    Re: subversion book in txt format.
From:       bmah () packetdesign ! com (Bruce A !  Mah)
Date:       2004-02-27 16:29:03
Message-ID: 200402271629.i1RGT30p025162 () nimitz ! packetdesign ! com
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If memory serves me right, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 23:05, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote:
> > Guys, 
> > 
> > Could you please make a copy of the subversion book in plain txt format. I 
> > would like to convert it to my Palm PDA but I could only do txt2palmdoc.
> 
> Hm, our xsl package doesn't seem to have an XSL sheet for converting
> docbook-xml into plain text.  How odd.  And I can't seem to find an
> html2txt tool when googling.
> 
> However, I simply brought up the giant book.html in 'links', which is
> already rendering html to txt, and told it to "save formatted document",
> named the file 'book.txt', and poof, I have a real book.txt.  You can
> use that as a workaround.  Maybe we'll upload it the website too.

FYI, that's exactly how the FreeBSD Documentation Project generates txt 
file renderings of the Handbook, FAQ, release notes, etc.

Bruce.



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