you have a plain text file that you want to convert to HTML, load the
file into a plain-text editor and then follow these steps.

<p>
<ol>
<li>Change all occurrences of "<tt>&amp;</tt>" to "<tt>&amp;amp;</tt>".
<li>Change all occurrences of "<tt>&lt;</tt>" to "<tt>&amp;lt;</tt>".
<li>Change all occurrences of "<tt>&gt;</tt>" to "<tt>&amp;gt;</tt>".
<li>Change any accented letters to HTML entity names (previous section).
<li>Put "<tt>&lt;p&gt;</tt>" between each paragraph.
<li>Insert the standard prolog at t