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.IX Title "HTML::FormatText 3pm"
.TH HTML::FormatText 3pm "2022-11-19" "perl v5.36.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
HTML::FormatText \- Format HTML as plaintext
.SH "VERSION"
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version 2.16
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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.Vb 2
\&    use HTML::TreeBuilder;
\&    $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder\->new\->parse_file("test.html");
\&
\&    use HTML::FormatText;
\&    $formatter = HTML::FormatText\->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50);
\&    print $formatter\->format($tree);
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.Vb 5
\&    use HTML::FormatText;
\&    my $string = HTML::FormatText\->format_file(
\&        \*(Aqtest.html\*(Aq,
\&        leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50
\&        );
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain text. All character
attributes (bold/italic/underline) are ignored. Formatting of \s-1HTML\s0 tables and
forms is not implemented.
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HTML::FormatText is built on HTML::Formatter and documentation for that
module applies to this \- especially \*(L"new\*(R" in HTML::Formatter,
\&\*(L"format_file\*(R" in HTML::Formatter and \*(L"format_string\*(R" in HTML::Formatter.
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You might specify the following parameters when constructing the formatter:
.IP "\fIleftmargin\fR (alias \fIlm\fR)" 4
.IX Item "leftmargin (alias lm)"
The column of the left margin. The default is 3.
.IP "\fIrightmargin\fR (alias \fIrm\fR)" 4
.IX Item "rightmargin (alias rm)"
The column of the right margin. The default is 72.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
HTML::Formatter
.SH "AUTHORS"
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@cpan.org>
.IP "\(bu" 4
Sean M Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
.IP "\(bu" 4
Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Nigel Metheringham, 2002\-2005 Sean M Burke, 1999\-2002 Gisle Aas.
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This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.