Rather late to the party and I've already forgotten the initial email.
Nevertheless, I'll give the program I most use: epub2txt.[0] It's not perfect,
but compared to calibre's ebook-convert, and everything else I found in C in
github or codeberg or gitlab, it's the best. A once-over with an
On 2024-03-11 17:44 Greg Reagle wrote:
> Now my next question is, what is the tool that does the *best* job of
> turning a PDF book into a readable text document? Via html or
> docbook or markdown or whatever--doesn't matter. My previous
> experience trying things out to achieve this goal is
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 1:15 PM, Greg Minshall wrote:
> for some personal tastes/usage cases, this, using pandoc's `-t`
> option, might be minor-ly simpler:
>
> man --local-file --pager 'less -ir' \
> <(pandoc --standalone -t man \
>
I think I finally figured it out! With help, of course, from my wise and
helpful community. Thanks! And reading the man page for elinks. :>
for direct viewing in less:
pandoc -s -t html City_of_Truth-Morrow.epub | elinks -dump-color-mode 2
-force-html | less -ir
to make a file to keep,
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 12:53 PM, LM wrote:
> You could try modifying sdlbook or bard. It would be nice if either of these
> offered keymapping functionality like some programming editors do.
Thank you for telling me about these two programs. I had not heard of them.
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 4:06 PM, Georg Lehner wrote:
> Option 1: use w3m
[snip]
All great commands. Thank you.
> The reason you loose formatting when saving from less(1) or w3m is, that
> these programs on purpose do not save the terminal control characters
> which are doing the markup. Line
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 11:33 AM, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> Maybe mupdf/mutools or the eGhostscript tools o qpdf?
Yes, thank you for this excellent advice. I tried "mutool convert", but I am
more satisfied with pandoc's output, for both text and html output (from epub).
Hi,
After reading the opinion of the people in this thread,
I think the best option is to merge the sbase and ubase
repositories and having a mechanism in the build system
to select the set of tools to be included in the build.
The main drawback of this is that the build system will
be more
