Convert plain text file to HTML
txt2html needs your help. If you are a Perl programmer and if you wants to help a nice project, this is your opportunity.
My name is Eriberto and I am not a Perl developer. I imported txt2html from its old repositories[1][2] to GitHub (the original developer is inactive[3]). After this, I applied all patches found in Debian project and other places for this program. All my work was registered in ChangeLog file (version 2.53 and later releases). I also maintain txt2html packaged in Debian[4].
If you are interested to help txt2html, read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
[1] http://txt2html.sourceforge.net [2] https://metacpan.org/release/txt2html [3] Kathryn Andersen (RUBYKAT) told me in a private email message that is inactive because a personal problem. So, txt2html needs help! [4] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/txt2html
txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML, using HTML::TextToHTML Perl module.
It supports headings, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML.
The purpose for this tool is to provide an easier way of converting existing text documents to HTML format, giving something nicer than just whapping the text into a big PRE block. txt2html can also be used to aid in writing new HTML documents, but there are probably better ways of doing that.
txt2html is not a program to convert wordprocessor files or other marked-up document formats. It is also not a program to convert HTML to text. Most HTML browsers do that.
If you need to convert something other than plain text to HTML, or you need to convert from HTML, you should look for a more appropriate tool.
txt2html is not a program for automatically generating a table-of-contents from a file. If you want that, then use txt2html to generate a HTML file, and then use htmltoc or hypertoc on the HTML file.
Please, read the README.txt2html file and generated manpages txt2html(1) and HTML::TextToHTML(3).