# Description: # A script to reformat a plain text file document which contains # a set of urls and descriptions of those urls into # some kind of html. The script recognises some special structures # within the plain text document. For example: # # The '=' character, when the first non-whitespace character on a line indicates # that all the following text on the line should be formatted as a # 'heading' or 'page title'. # # The '*' character, indicates that the following white-space delimited text # should be formatted as an Html hyperlink, with the text content of the # hyperlink being the url itself. # # This script also accepts the format: # [Beginning Of Line][spaces]*[spaces]The Document Title|Url-Or-Path/to/Html/File|Url-Or-Path/To/Text/File| # # This script also accepts the format (all on one line): # [Beginning Of Line][spaces]*[spaces]The Document Title|Url-Or-Path/to/Html/File|Url-Or-Path/To/Text/File| # |Url-Or-Path/To/Pdf/File| # # This script also accepts the format: # [Beginning Of Line][spaces]*[spaces]The Document Title|Url-Or-Path/to/Base/FileName|||| # An example of this format would be # * A Interesting Analysis|/alexis-info/docs/the-ramble|||| # This example assumes that there are files # /alexis-info/docs/the-ramble.html # /alexis-info/docs/the-ramble.txt # /alexis-info/docs/the-ramble.pdf # # This format is useful when all the different 'versions' (that is, document formats) # have the same base name and directory location, but have the appropriate file name # extension for their documents type. The script will automatically generate links # to each of these document formats in the order: html, text, pdf # # This script also accepts the format: # [Beginning Of Line][spaces]*[spaces]The Document Title|Url-Or-Path/to/Base/FileName||| # This produces the same results as the format above except that no link to a Adobe 'pdf' # file is created. # # This script also accepts the format (All on one line): # [Beginning Of Line][spaces]*[spaces] # The Document/Link Title|Url-Or-Path/to/File| # # The script also accepts the format: # [Beginning Of Line][spaces]http://blah # # The script will also format blocks of text between the strings -->> and --<< # (where they are the first string on the line) as an HTML
block # # This filter script also ignors lines starting in a '#' character. That is # those lines will not be rendered into Html. # # Please see the file /var/www/alexis-info/docs/resources.txt for an # example of a file which utilizes some of the formats described above. # # Example: # ./linkdoc2html.sh aRave.txt > aRave.html # # Parameters: # textFileName # The name of the text file which is to be transformed from text into html # notran # If the second parameter is the string 'notran' then the javascript links # to the google automatic language translation engine will NOT be inserted # into the HTML page. This is useful, for example, when the HTML page is # going to be located within a 'password-protected' directory, because # the Google translation engine will not be able to access the page, and # therefor the translation links will not work. # # Notes: # The idea of this script is to allow the text file to be as free of 'mark-up' # as is possible. This can allow the simple maintenance of the text file, although # the precision and utility of a system such as XML is not available. # It should be possible to modify this script to produce XML instead of HTML # # This script has been successfully run on the debian linux bash shell. # It is possible that it would also run on a Microsoft Windows bash shell, # such as the Cygwin Bash shell. # # There is a GPL perl program called text2html which performs a similar task # to this script. # # The HTML produced by this script is NOT friendly to Lynx, the text browser # because it uses an HTML table to create a 'left margin' for the document # A style sheet should be used instead. # # See Also: # txtdoc2html.sh, diary2html.sh, plaintext2html.sh # plaintext2pdf.sh # Author: # m.j.bishop if [ "$1" = "" ] then echo "usage: $0 textFileName [notran]" cat $0 | sed -n "/^[ ]*#/p" exit 1; fi echo "" echo "" echo " " echo " " echo " " echo " " echo "" echo "" echo "" echo "" echo "" echo "" echo "" echo "" #-- The Google automatic translation links below, are sometimes disabled because they will #-- not work from within a password protected directory, since Google does not #-- have permission to view that directory. if [ "$2" != "notran" ] then echo "" echo "See this page in (approximate):" echo "Español|" echo "Français|" echo "Italiano|" echo "Deutsch|" echo "Português" echo " " fi #---- The file below contains a colorized table of the links #---- cat /var/www/utils/translator-bar.html echo "