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ploum

3 years ago, as I just had created Offpunk, I started to implement what would become ansicat : a way to render HTML (or any format) in your terminal

Besides a lot of technical learning, the biggest lesson was probably how bad people are at writing texts and abusing any format.

ploum.net/2022-03-24-ansi_html

See the results here:

offpunk.net/install.html

ploum.netRendering the Web with Pictures in Your Terminal : more than you would like to know about HTML, ANSI and the philosophy of communication.
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Lupo

@ploum

> An HTML2ANSI renderer seems very useful and I’m wondering if I should release it as a standalone tool.

I would appreciate that 🙂

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ploum

@lupo : current offpunk contains a standalone tool called "ansicat".

This is part of the same package but you can use ansicat without using offpunk.

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@ploum
> The author put the word "NEVER" in all caps, probably hoping to make a point. It looks like the author felt insecure about his argument, felt that it was weak and tried to compensate.

It depends. It is fine to have a book without formatting. Yet, you read it with a pencil, marking words, putting notes. That's what have been done by author

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