From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jun 24 07:08:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA22691 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 07:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA22683 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 07:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA06730 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:08:28 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:08:28 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: free docbook-to-man tool now available (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just ran into the following which may help us out a lot. The conversion is based on the instant program I mentioned earlier. It comes with a modified version of instant that has built in CALS table -> roff tbl conversion. The translation spec looks like it handles a pretty substantial chunk of the the Docbook DTD and may be a good shortcut to abandoning the linuxdoc DTD. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 15:46:42 -0400 From: Bob Scheifler To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: free docbook-to-man tool now available The X Consortium is pleased to announce the availability of a free docbook-to-man tool, a batch converter that transforms UNIX-style reference pages written using the DocBook SGML DTD into nroff/troff man pages using the -man macros. The tool is available as the compressed tar file ftp:://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/docbook-to-man.tar.gz. The Davenport Group is encouraged to mirror this on their own ftp site. This tool was produced by Fred Dalrymple under contract to the X Consortium. The following companies generously funded the development of this public tool as part of the CDE/Motif Project under the auspices of the Open Software Foundation: Hewlett-Packard Company International Business Machines Corp. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Novell, Inc. Digital Equipment Corp. Fujitsu Limited Hitachi, Ltd.