Support elements - <b>, <strong>, <i>, <em>, <del> and <code>

[r-a-y]

Hi Jevon,

Nice library! I've been using it in a few projects.

Here's a PR that supports a few other elements:

• <strong> uses two asterisks.
• <em> uses one underscore. Could use the asterisk instead, but thought it might be harder to see when <strong> is in use.
• <del> uses the Github Markdown syntax of two tildes.
• <code> uses the ` character.

[soundasleep]

Hello - I like the idea of this change! Can you add some tests that test each of these new elements?

https://github.com/soundasleep/html2text/tree/master/tests

[jaylinski]

Isn't this what html-to-markdown does?

https://github.com/thephpleague/html-to-markdown

[soundasleep]

I agree with @jaylinski: This project is about converting HTML to a text format (suitable for emails and generic rendering), rather than converting HTML to a Markdown format (suitable for Markdown parsers).

For example, <h1>xxx</h1> is not converted to "# xxx". It's converted only to "xxx", because this is what it would look like if you rendered the HTML and copy/pasted the text.

If you're looking to convert HTML to markdown, you should use one of these other projects instead.