Text Converter

Universal text converter

Download Universal text converter, DOS version (386 code, v2.0.12h)
Download Unix version and source code (v2.0.12h)
If you have problems compiling/running the Unix version, send me an e-mail.
(At this moment it have been tried under Linux 2.0.x, Sun 5.5 and Solaris 4.1.)

You can use the following character sets:

(-l) -l1	ISO 8819/Windows Latin 1
-l2	ISO 8819-Latin 2
-lw	Windows Latin 2
-l5	ISO 8819/Windows Latin 5
-4	Codepage 437
-5	Codepage 850
-8	Codepage 852
-a	CWI ASCII text
-xa	Xerox Ventura Publisher ASCII Text
(-x) -x8	Xerox Ventura Publisher 8 bit ASCII Text [.VPN]
-ca	Corel Ventura Publisher 4.x ASCII Text
(-c) -c8	Corel Ventura Publisher 4.x 8 bit ASCII Text [.CVP]
-c5	Corel Ventura Publisher 5.0 ASCII Text
-cn	Corel Ventura Publisher 5.0 ANSI Text
-v	Ventura International
-m	MC Text
-7	7 bit text (standard ASCII) [.ASC]
-h1	HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 1.0 [.HTM]
-h2	HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 2.0 [.HTM]
(-h) -h3	HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 3.2 [.HTM]
-w	Winword 2.0 [.DOC]

Modifiers to be at the end of the format specifier:

d double linebreaks (as usual text, double linebreak for the paragraphs)

s single linebreaks (everything goes to one line, hard linebreak only for new paragraph) just as Winword "Text only".

p just as 'd', but Ventura or HTML <tags> and @STYLES not written out

t just as 's', but Ventura or HTML <tags> and @STYLES not written out

Hint: If your whole file is converted into one paragraph, you should use the 's'/'t' modifier for the input file (or 'd'/'p' for the output, accordingly).
If your file is breaked into lines with double or more linebreaks, you should use 'd'/'p' for the input file.

For HTML output:

e empty (write only converted file)

n normal (use some standard tags [<html>, <body> etc.])

i for Impulzus (some default settings)

w "white paper" (white background sheet)

NEITHER specifiers are case sensitive.

If you use "/" or "\" instead of "-", the program removes/inserts extra spaces (there must be a space after punctation but must not before it).
It does also replace double minus signs to dashes and quote signs to typographic (upper/lower) quote signs.
Furthermore, the program makes Internet addresses (containing '@' or '://' and '.', for example 'hate@microsoft.com' or 'http://www.my.address') italic.

If you use "\" or "_" instead of "/" or "-", you can override Unix or DOS newline and convert \n to \r\n (Unix to DOS) or \r\n to \n (DOS to Unix).

More examples:
To convert a single linebroke cp. 437 text to a HTML 3.0 document using a "white page" style sheet: CONV -4S -H3W ARTICLE.TXT GENIUS
To convert (ISO) Latin 1 text files to Corel Ventura Publisher 5.0 ASCII text with typograhic conversions: CONV /L /CA *.DOC
To convert a double linebroke Win. Latin 2 text on a Unix machnie to single linebroke CWI ASCII text for DOS with typographic conversions: CONV \LWD \AS MYFILE.TXT GADGET.TTT

THe program knows the following HTML characters:
 .. ÿ, &.acute;, &.circ;, &.cedil, &.grave;, &.ring;, &.tilde;, &.uml;
æ = æ, Æ = Æ, &oelig; = œ, &OElig; = Œ, ø = ø, Ø = Ø, ð = ð, Ð = Ð, & = &, © = ©,   = , &sp; = , < = <, > = >, " = ", ß = ß, ¡ = ¡, ¢ = ¢, £ = £, ¤ = ¤, ¥ = ¥, ¦ = ¦, § = §, ¨ = ¨, ª = ª, « = «, ¬ = ¬,  = , ® = ®, ¯ = ¯, ° = °, ± = ± ¹ = ¹, ² = ², ³ = ³, ´ = ´, µ = µ, ¶ = ¶, · = ·, ¸ = ¸, º = º, » = », ¼ = ¼, ½ = ½, ¾ = ¾, ¿ = ¿, × = ×.

Thank you for using this program. Any notifications, suggestions, bug reports are welcome to dome <at> impulzus <dot> com