NAME

       HTML::FormatText::Links - format HTML as plain text using links

SYNOPSIS

        use HTML::FormatText::Links;
        $text = HTML::FormatText::Links->format_file ($filename);
        $text = HTML::FormatText::Links->format_string ($html_string);

        $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Links->new (rightmargin => 60);
        $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
        $text = $formatter->format ($tree);

DESCRIPTION

       "HTML::FormatText::Links" turns HTML into plain text using the "links" program.

           <http://links.twibright.com/>

       The module interface is compatible with formatters like "HTML::FormatText", but all parsing etc is done
       by links.  See "HTML::FormatExternal" for the formatting functions and options, all of which are
       supported by "HTML::FormatText::Links", with the following caveats.

       "leftmargin", "rightmargin"
           In  past  versions of links without the "-html-margin" option you always get an extra 3 spaces within
           the requested left and right margins.

       "input_charset", "output_charset"
           An output charset requires Links 2.0 or higher (or some such version),  and  as  of  2.2  the  output
           cannot  be UTF-8 (though the input can be).  Various unicode inputs are turned into reasonable output
           though, for example smiley face U+263A becomes ":-)".

       Links can be a bit picky about its charset names.  This module attempts to  ease  that  by  for  instance
       turning  "latin-1" (not accepted) into "latin1" (which is accepted).  A full "ISO-8859-1" etc is accepted
       too.

SEE ALSO

       HTML::FormatExternal, links(1)

HOME PAGE

       <http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html>

LICENSE

       Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde

       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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

perl v5.26.1                                       2017-11-04                       HTML::FormatText::Links(3pm)