Markdown
Being a plain-text luddite, this looks nifty: markdown [43folders].
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Thus, “Markdown†is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.
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You can use HTML, but you don't have to. Formatting tips (for code, quotes, etc.) here.
Yes but I want to know how to convert some files from html into plain text. I have deleted many downloads because I thought it was somebody being a prat in the past, when in fact the prat was me.DOH!
Ron… Most web browsers let you “save as…” to save a web page as plain text, which is one way to do it.
If you want to do it “programmatically”, and you have Unix/Linux/OS X capability, then I’d recommend, eg, lynx or links, where you can do something like:
which would render a plain text version of the front page and write it to the file gimbo.txt.