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Originally Posted by HarryT
On a related note, do you (or anyone else) know of any good way to create an LRF file from a "collection" of HTML files - ie the sort of document where (for example) one has a book that consists of a "Contents" page which has links to each chapter; each chapter being a separate HTML file?
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I usually take the index.html (TOC) file and edit it so only the list of files that are referenced is retained- all in perfect order.
This can be done like this
load file in vim editor
remove all linebreaks :%s/\n//
insert linebreaks before all < characters :%s/</{here press ctrl+Q Enter}</g
insert linebreaks after all > characters :%s/>/>{here press ctrl+Q Enter}/g
remove all lines not containing <a href= tag :v/<a href/delete
remove all <a href="http:// tags themselves :%s/<a href="
remove all > tags :%s/">//
You can even make script file
strip_names.vim
" beginning of the script
:%s/\n//
:%s/</{here press ctrl+Q Enter}</g
:%s/>/>{here press ctrl+Q Enter}/g
:v/<a href/delete
:%s/<a href="
:%s/">//
" end of the script
and you call the script by typing
:source strip_names.vim
on the commandline of the Vim editor
Then I take this list and convert it to a script like
cat chapter1.html >> all_of_them.html
cat chapter2.html >> all_of_them.html
and run the script
as an alternative the script all_of_them.vim
can look like
:$read chapter1.html
:$read chapter2.html
then you open an empty file all_of_them.html in Vim
and run the script
:source all_of_them.vim
Now you transform resulting monster html document all_of_them.html to rtf by loading it into your favourite word processor and saving it into rtf or using html2rtf, or by running a vim script that converts chosen html tags to rtf tags and inserts an rtf "header" and "footer" - this way you can retain bold and itallic tags and nuke all others
Then you can procede to transform rtf file into lrf using your favourite tools.
I usually do not bother converting and load rtf file directly into Reader via memory card.
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