On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Arthur A. Gleckler
<xxxxxx@speechcode.com> wrote:
> By the way, I maintain a file for each SRFI's abstract here:
>
> https://github.com/scheme-requests-for-implementation/srfi-common/tree/master/admin/abstracts
>
> Whenever a new SRFI is added or the abstract for an existing SRFI changes, I
> update the corresponding HTML file in that directory.
>
> By the way, you can use Pandoc to convert from HTML to text.  For example,
> this command will convert HTML on stdin to text on stdout:
>
> pandoc -f html -t plain

Perfect.  I'll merge your pull request (to have a trace that you've
submitted those), and then integrate the HTML-sourced abstracts as
you've suggested.

(I am curios to compare `lynx` text output to `pandoc`.)

BTW, and I'm referring only to abstracts, have you considered in using
one of the "plain-text"-compliant markup languages like Markdown for
this purpose?  They look almost as plain-text files, but there are
countless formaters that can output HTML.  (Markdown is not my first
choice as general "documentation" language, but for this limited
purpose it seems to be the best fit.)

Ciprian.