lynx-dev
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: lynx-dev Converting HTML to Text with Lynx


From: David Combs
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Converting HTML to Text with Lynx
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 07:06:29 -0800

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 09:46:27AM -0500, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> Re: link numbers and link references at the end of lynx text output
> 
> As long as people who WANT what I call the HREF footnotes (the numbers
> where a link would be, along with an entry at the end of the page
> indicating the link's HREF) can get them, easily, then it seems like
> having an easy way for people who do not want either would also be useful.
> 
> lynx -nolist -dump gets rid of the HREF footnotes at the bottom of the page,
> but leaves the links numbered (at least with my lynx.cfg setup).
> But that option never seemed all that useful to me - what good does it do
> me to see that there was a link in a paragraph and not see the href.  If
> I go so far as to drop the hrefs then I probably don't want the numbers 
> either.
> -- 

Sounds good!

So -nolilst should elim them too.

If theuser WANTS numbers but NOT links-at-end, then he merely P(rints) it
to a file, then edits the file, and removes the bottom part.

David


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]