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 comple
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).
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 b
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.
https://github.com/rofl0r/
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, f
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 \
> 2015.31233.Arab-Geographers-Knowledge-Of-Southern-India.
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 th
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 ed
