---
name: "HTML::FormatText::Zen"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libhtml-formatexternal-perl"
version: "26-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/HTML::FormatText::Zen"
---

# HTML::FormatText::Zen(3pm)

format HTML as plain text using zen

## NAME

HTML::FormatText::Zen - format HTML as plain text using zen

## SYNOPSIS

```
 use HTML::FormatText::Zen;
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Zen->format_file ($filename);
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Zen->format_string ($html_string);
 $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Zen->new;
 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
 $text = $formatter->format ($tree);
```

## DESCRIPTION

`"HTML::FormatText::Zen"` turns HTML into plain text using the `"zen"` program.

\<http://www.nocrew.org/software/zen/\>

The module interface is compatible with formatters like `"HTML::FormatText"`, but all parsing etc is done by zen.

See `"HTML::FormatExternal"` for the formatting functions.  The margins options work but nothing else.

- "rightmargin"

  As of zen version 0.2.3 there is no right margin option.

- "input\_charset", "output\_charset"

  As of zen version 0.2.3 the input charset is always latin-1 and output is always latin-1.  Entities in the input seem to be truncated to 8-bits for the output.

## SEE ALSO

HTML::FormatExternal, **zen**(1)

## HOME PAGE

\<http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html\>

## LICENSE

Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde

HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with HTML-FormatExternal.  If not, see \<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/\>.