convert structured text to html?

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Several months ago, I found some tools that would
convert "structured" text to html. For example
**this** would get converted to <b>this</b>, and
there were other conventions for lists, paragraphs,
etc.

Unfortunately, I can no longer find those tools.
I did find some perl and php scripts but I am
looking for something standalone. I've searched
all over the place with Google but I've been
unable to get back to the original sites. I recall
that one of the systems was documented in a book
and was actually used by the author of the book
to format his book (or was it his web site?).
The tools I saw were reasonably well documented
and appeared to have gone thru various rounds of
development (not something thrown together and
just forgotten).

Pointers would be appreciated. Thanks!

-- Jeff
 
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Several months ago, I found some tools that would
convert "structured" text to html. For example
**this** would get converted to <b>this</b>, and
there were other conventions for lists, paragraphs,
etc.
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GPAGE ver. 1.9 - (c) 2000, Horst Schaeffer
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GPAGE is a small DOS utility that generates a local home page
with
your favorite web links from a simple text file.

Features:

* The text file with your links can easily be edited and
rearranged.
No need to worry about HTML tags, layout or index generation,
all
are handled automatically..

* The links are ordered in groups, with an index at the top for
quick
access to a large number of web sites. You can even have
direct
links from the index to other local pages..

* Text can be added in many ways, from simple comment lines to
text
with embedded links.

* As an option, the links in Microsoft Internet Explorer's
FAVORITES
can be adopted into your text file, a new HTML file being
generated
at the same time. You can continue to add new web links to
the
FAVORITES, and later run GPAGE again to add them to your
local page.
GPAGE can also delete links from FAVORITES to avoid
duplication in
your local page, and to keep FAVORITES to a manageable size.
sorry no url. should be easy to find.
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dos interface, page limit ~30K , lightning fast.
Write the text and convert , test, and then review.
If you know a very little html coding, the output and appearance
can be easily modified
 
jd said:
Several months ago, I found some tools that would
convert "structured" text to html. For example
**this** would get converted to <b>this</b>, and
there were other conventions for lists, paragraphs,
etc.

Unfortunately, I can no longer find those tools.
I did find some perl and php scripts but I am
looking for something standalone. I've searched
all over the place with Google but I've been
unable to get back to the original sites. I recall
that one of the systems was documented in a book
and was actually used by the author of the book
to format his book (or was it his web site?).
The tools I saw were reasonably well documented
and appeared to have gone thru various rounds of
development (not something thrown together and
just forgotten).
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Hi Jeff,

Perhaps you're thinking of the Pricelessware pick for this:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/PL2004WEBDESIGN.htm#Convert:TextToHTML

Text2Web Pro

more choices here:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/programs/P_WEBDESIGN.php#2.01Convert:TextToHTML

Susan
 
Thanks for the references. I'm still trying to locate
some of the programs I found in my earlier search, and
none of these links have led in that direction. If
you have any more references, please let me know!

Thanks...

-- Jeff
 
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