Hi; On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:51 -0500, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I have been using Notecase for a couple of years. I would like to keep > it but it seems it is no longer being maintained as open source. > > ∴ I would like to use Lyx as my large note taker or draft writer > application. The problem is Notecase uses an *.ncd suffix which is > unrecognized by Lyx. When I examine the files I want to import from > Notecase to Lyx they are designated in the header as: > > <!DOCTYPE NoteCase-File> > <!--LastNote:41--> > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" > http-equiv="Content-Type"> > <meta name="generator" content="NoteCase 1.6.1"> > <TITLE></TITLE> > ... etc. > > The markup is almost certainly html. > > How can I convert these files into *.txt? I have tried several > variations of: > > ]$ html2text -o ~/UMLC.txt file:///home/bill/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.txt > *Cannot open input file "file:///home/bill/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.*". > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated on how to import these (I have > several) *.ncd files into Lyx. > The real solution was: ]$ html2text ~/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.ncd >> ~/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.txt Then importing .txt files into LyX. Worked like a charm! However, shouldn't have ]$ html2text ~/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.ncd -o ~/NoteCaseDocs/UMLC.txt worked as well. Or, have I misunderstood the use of the '-o' option ?!? -- Regards Bill Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28 Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines