Re: LYNX-DEV TABLE TAGS

[Tom Zerucha]

On 11 Feb 1997 address@hidden wrote:

> I was wondering if you had any suggestions for someone who had to view a
> document, with html table tagging, in lynx?  Is there some substitution
> for table tags in html that keeps the information in an orderly fashion?
> I would be most grateful for any suggestions!
> Thanks,
> Mark Dunkerton
> (address@hidden)

There is no direct way.  You might be able to get away with putting the
table in a <PRE> section and carefully spacing things.

I have an awk script that does a reasonable conversion, but has trouble
with fancy embedded forms and some other tags, even assuming technically
correct HTML. 
(start at http://www.mich.com/~thomas/ftp)

The easiest way is to look at it in Lynx and see if it makes sense as is, 
and the best current alternative is one of the table filters.

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