Maybe you
would like to set up some sort of HTML Template mechanism,
whereby you have a static, one-size-fits-all HTML wrapper
that can be used to bracket any particular plain-text file;
the text file would need just a couple very simple alterations,
if the template went something like this:
<HTML>
<BODY>
<PRE>
# text file goes here
</PRE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Now, the only things you have to worry about are:
-
Convert any angle brackets within the text file to entity
references, < and >, and
-
Put the necessary anchor tags at the lines of interest.
(and you could number the lines, if that's not done yet
and seems helpful to the reader).