HTML::...xt::Zen(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

HTML::FormatText::Zen — okay bestie so this is the lil module that formats HTML as plain text using zen ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use HTML::FormatText::Zen;
$text = HTML::FormatText::Zen->format_file ($filename);
$text = HTML::FormatText::Zen->format_string ($html_string);

$formatter = HTML::FormatText::Zen->new;
$tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
$text = $formatter->format ($tree);

Like, that's the whole vibe check right there. Four ways in, zero drama 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

HTML::FormatText::Zen turns HTML into plain text using the zen program. Not me being obsessed with a formatter, but here we are 🫶

<http://www.nocrew.org/software/zen/>

The module interface is compatible with formatters like HTML::FormatText, but all parsing etc is done by zen. So like, the module is just the middleman, the actual work is <em>zen's</em> moment 💅

See HTML::FormatExternal for the formatting functions. And listen — the margins options work but nothing else. That's it. That's the whole menu, bestie 😭

• rightmargin — As of zen version 0.2.3 there is no right margin option. Not hidden, not secret, just... not a thing 🙈
• input_charset, output_charset — As of zen version 0.2.3 the input charset is always latin-1 and output is always latin-1. So no choosing, it's giving fixed. And entities in the input seem to be truncated to 8-bits for the output. Lowkey cursed but that's the situation 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• HTML::FormatExternal
• zen(1)

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🌈 HOME PAGE 🌈

<http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html>

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👑 LICENSE 👑

Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde 🫶

HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with HTML-FormatExternal. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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