plain text report output

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed,  5 Apr 2006 13:13:39 -0400
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

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

that's probably easier for sure...
A

> 
> -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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