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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 1997 02:47:29 +1100
From:      davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent)
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: new texinfo is busted!
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970114024729.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112183821.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Jan 12, 1997 18:38:21 %2B0100
References:  <3.0.32.19970112145449.009da940@dimaga.com> <Mutt.19970112024849.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au> <Mutt.19970112183821.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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J Wunsch writes:
> As David Nugent wrote:
> > FWIW, rman (Rossetta man) can do this pretty well (convert man
> > pages to html amongst other things).
> 
> Well, i think we've got a special case here.  Plain ol' man pages
> should be converted by such a tool, which i think involves a lot
> of guessing.

Indeed it does. However, it does an excellent job of it, picking
up embedded cross-references. General structure is good too.


> -mdoc pages should better be converted from the source.

No argument at all from me.

The only difference is that this requires someone to write
code<tm>. :-)


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
Voice +61-3-9791-9547  Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507  3:632/348@fidonet
davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/



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