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@@ -176,20 +176,32 @@ may be used in Windows under Cygwin.) markdown2pdf -o "My Book.pdf" chap1.txt chap2.txt chap3.txt If no input file is specified, input will be taken from STDIN. + All of `pandoc`'s options will work with `markdown2pdf` as well. 2. `html2markdown` grabs a web page from a file or URL and converts it to markdown-formatted text, using `tidy` and `pandoc`. - Unless input is from STDIN, an attempt is made to determine the - character encoding of the page from the "Content-type" meta tag. - If this is not present, UTF-8 is assumed. Alternatively, a character - encoding may be specified explicitly using the `-e` option. - `html2markdown` searches for an available program (`wget`, `curl`, - or a text-mode browser) to fetch the contents of a URL. - Optionally, the `-g` command may be used to specify the command - to be used: + All of `pandoc`'s options will work with `html2markdown` as well. + In addition, the following special options may be used. + The special options must be separated from the `html2markdown` + command and any regular Pandoc options by the delimiter `--`: - html2markdown -g 'wget --user=foo --password=bar' mysite.com + html2markdown -o out.txt -- -e latin1 -g curl google.com + + The `-e` or `--encoding` option specifies the character encoding + of the HTML input. If this option is not specified, and input + is not from STDIN, `html2markdown` will attempt to determine the + page's character encoding from the "Content-type" meta tag. + If this is not present, UTF-8 is assumed. + + The `-g` or `--grabber` option specifies the command to be used to + fetch the contents of a URL: + + html2markdown -g 'curl --user foo:bar' www.mysite.com + + If this option is not specified, `html2markdown` searches for an + available program (`wget`, `curl`, or a text-mode browser) to fetch + the contents of a URL. 3. `hsmarkdown` is designed to be used as a drop-in replacement for `Markdown.pl`. It forces `pandoc` to convert from markdown to |