How can I change/override the behavior of link creation?

[iandouglas]

I'm looking to turn my HTML into just a plaintext document, but I want to preserve my links and anchor text. I'm trying to use html2text to generate a plaintext version of an HTML newsletter.

For example if I had HTML like this:

Go ahead and <a href="http://foo.com/calendar">book an appointment with me</a>.

the default behavior is to create markdown like:

Go ahead and [book an appointment with me](http://foo.com/calendar).

... which is exactly right if I wanted markdown, but I'd like to override this behavior to generate something more like this:

Go ahead and book an appointment with me. (http://foo.com/calendar)

Is this kind of override possible? Or do I need to write my own regex parser to do this instead?

I tried looking at the options to put links at the end of the paragraph, but that didn't seem to change my text output and it remains in markdown format.