From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2007-08-22T23:20:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Pretty Printing

Peter Versteegen wrote:

> # But this approach doesn't.  Why not? Are there other ways to make
> this simpler?

Here's an idea that's simpler ... if you already have all the tools in place.

Push your raw data into XML. Write an XSLT that converts it to XHTML.
Pipe this thru `lynx -dump`.

No joke: I have done that to produce beautiful automated text-only
e-mails, containing tables of data.

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