plain text report output

[Derek Atkins]

Try using lynx?   Or just load it into firefox and then Save?

-derek

Quoting TyrusMaynard <mayn at main.nc.us>:

> I am asking the gnucash list for any expertise on html2text, such as 
> suggestions offered by Andrew earlier on this thread. Andrew 
> suggested to first export the report (generates html file) and then 
> deploy html2text ; the sed pipe in the earlier posted example doesn't 
> relate to the problem shown in the examples below.
>   I think/hope that this tool can become the "work around"  for well 
> aligned text output from html reports, but  I havent been able to get 
> around the unusual   fragmentation of  some fields into a multi row .
>
>  It seems to me that html2text  has  some set definition of column 
> width whenever it parses html which contains table tags  although I 
> can't find that thru info or man documents. It also seems that the 
> forward slash in any date field is somehow is interpreted as a line 
> feed within any given row/column tag location. Below are the samples 
> with example html source.
> Thanks Ty
>
>
> Here are the fields of the report (Num is empty of data):
>
> Date	Num	Description	Transfer from/to	Amount
>
> Here is a sample section acquired by copy/paste to text:
>  Good single line rows , its OK except for the  skew of column which are all
> well aligned in the HTML display in gnucash and other browsers.
>
> 04/05/2005		BRIGGS CONSTR. hydraul oil	Assets.chk153	$23.28		04/07/2005
> ASHEVILLE HOSE & E	Assets.chk153	$29.40
> 04/22/2005		SmokyMtn Petro hydraul	Assets.chk153	$33.66
>
> Here is same sample of HTML sent thru html2 text:
>    "html2text -o output.file -nobs input.file"
>    The date and description field has become multi-row for ??? reason
>
> 04/             BRIGGS CONSTR.
> 05/             hydraul oil           Assets.chk153          $23.28
> 2005
> 04/
> 07/             ASHEVILLE HOSE & E    Assets.chk153          $29.40
> 2005
> 04/             SmokyMtn Petro
> 22/             hydraul               Assets.chk153          $33.66
> 2005
>
> Here is the  sample (first row) of HTML source:
>
> <TR>
> <TD BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
> 04/05/2005
> </TD>
> <TD BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
> <BR>
> </TD>
> <TD BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
> BRIGGS CONSTR. hydraul oil
> </TD>
> <TD BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
> Assets.chk153
>
> </TD>
> <TD BGCOLOR="#ffffff" NOWRAP ALIGN="right">
> $23.28
> </TD>
> </TR>
>
>
>
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