Re: Converting html to text ?!? [SOLVED] -- but me or a bug.

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Hi;

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:51 -0500, William Case wrote: 
...
 Hi;

 I have been using Notecase for a couple of years.  I would like to keep
 it but it seems it is no longer being maintained as open source.

 ∴ I would like to use Lyx as my large note taker or draft writer
 application.  The problem is Notecase uses an *.ncd suffix which is
 unrecognized by Lyx.  When I examine the files I want to import from
 Notecase to Lyx they are designated in the header as:

         <!DOCTYPE NoteCase-File>
         <!--LastNote:41-->
         <HTML>
         <HEAD>
         <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"
         http-equiv="Content-Type">
         <meta name="generator" content="NoteCase 1.6.1">
         <TITLE></TITLE>
         ... etc.

 The markup is almost certainly html.

 How can I convert these files into *.txt?  I have tried several
 variations of:

         ]$ html2text -o ~/UMLC.txt file:///home/bill/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.txt
         *Cannot open input file "file:///home/bill/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.*".

 Any suggestions greatly appreciated on how to import these (I have
 several) *.ncd files into Lyx.

The real solution was:

]$ html2text ~/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.ncd >> ~/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.txt

Then importing .txt files into LyX.  Worked like a charm!

However, shouldn't have 
]$ html2text ~/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.ncd -o ~/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.txt
worked as well. Or, have I misunderstood the use of the '-o' option ?!?

-- 
Regards Bill
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