From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 13 07:50:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA18238 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 07:50:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA18233 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 07:50:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA01259; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 02:47:29 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: 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! References: <3.0.32.19970112145449.009da940@dimaga.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.56 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from J Wunsch on Jan 12, 1997 18:38:21 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. :-) 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/