From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jan 13 09:56:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA25595 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:56:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA25562 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:56:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA00515; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 12:51:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 12:48:12 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Giles Lean cc: Eivind Eklund , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! In-Reply-To: <199701122115.IAA29419@nemeton.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Giles Lean wrote: > This "man2html" is a /bin/sh script (yikes!) but does a really good > job of on the fly man page to HTML. (It parses the nroff *output*, > which is an interesting approach.) And probably the most reliable, short of implementing a good share of nroff. :( That is the beauty of SGML -- the parser becomes an a tool independent of any particular application. Just implement it once in a library, and applications don't have to deal with any of that grunt work. On the other hand, man pages consistently marked up with the mdoc macros could probably converted from source form without too much difficulty, but it would be far more productive to convert them to the docbook DTD than HTML. Then you could just ditch the roff source. :) -john