plain text report output

[TyrusMaynard]

Thanks again for suggestions on this thread.
   The problem remains as outlined in the copy below which I simply includeg for 
reference in this post.
   The examples below were extracted from text files viewed in  ordinary text 
editors such as gedt/kate, and are  the way the text files displays  with "less" 
at the terminal prompt. In my post my MozillaMail client has hard line wrap at 
80 characters which could affect a solitary line in this post.
   Regarding  the suggestion to try Firefox and save:
If I do a SaveAs and select .txt output it outputs single lines like the 
original browser display, but with skewed columns (just like a copy/paste from 
the browser will do)
  Regarding the use of Lynx:
Lynx display of the exported html file does not have column spacing 
corresponding to the table defined in the HTML. It is worse than doing a 
copy/paste of the properly rendered HTML which looks fine in either gnucash or 
Firefox or other browser.

I am ready to follow the yellow-brick road if I can just get back to Kansas 
(well ordered plain text output sort of like those corn fields in the midwest)

Thanks,  Ty

 >>>example below here>>>
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>