Re: [ASCII 2 HTML] Appearently unable to find simple module!

Though it doesn't appear to do all you want, http://search.cpan.org/~bpostle/MKDoc-Text-Structured-0.83/lib/MKDoc/Text/Structured.pm may provide a start. OTOH, a search for "text<" produced at least 8 pages of results, including the likes of http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/Text-Smart-1.0.2/lib/Text/Smart/HTML.pm.

Alternately, does this render as you wish?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http:/
+/www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Blazar's Intent?</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.text {
  width: 100em;
  max-width: 100em;
  color: black;
  background-color: white;
}

.textshorter {
  width: 80em;
  max-width: 80em;
}

#art {
  color: green;
  background-color: white;
}

.table {
margin-left: 5em;
border: medium solid black;
font-style: italic;
width: 16em;
max-width: 40em;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>

<p class="text">
Now is the time to convert this very long ascii text to html without c
+ontinuation lines. Note that this works only within whatever you defi
+ne as "reasonable" bounds for screen width or accept possibly-unaccep
+table horizontal scrolling in the enduser's browser.

</p>

<p class="textshorter">

This is enclosed by a &lt;div class="textshorter&gt; Now is the time t
+o convert this very long ascii text to html without continuation line
+s. Note that this works only within whatever you define as "reasonabl
+e" bounds for screen width or accept possibly-unacceptable horizontal
+ scrolling in the enduser's browser.
</p>

<p class="textshorter">
Next comes some ascii art:
</p>

<pre id="art">
                           *
                           ^
                          / \
                        */   \
                        /     \*
               /       \
                      *----|----
               |
</pre>

<pre class="text">

And a table (less the inter-cell borders):
</pre>

<pre class="table">
  Foo    Bar    Blivitz
   1     0      1
   0     1        0
  379    4      2816
</pre>
</body>
</html>
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If so, even though this ignores many edge cases and non-trivial issues, but it seems to me that writing a module to do (more or less) what this does would be unnecessary if your project can tolerate a requirement for some minimal markup or if one applies some fairly straightforward heuristics to templating the original text.

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