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Article: 12858 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: rgristroph@yahoo.com (Rob Ristroph)
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Subject: Re: Dumb question about man pages
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>>>>> "Frank" == Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> writes:
Frank>
Frank> Does anybody know a simple, clean way to automatically convert
Frank> an HTML 1.0 document to nroff suitable for use as a Unix man
Frank> page? Or of a way to produce a UNIX man page and an HTML
Frank> document from common (plain-text) source? (We'd like to
Frank> produce the C-Kermit 8.0 man page as a Web page, with the
Frank> ability to "dump" it in real man-page format.) Thanks!
Frank>
Frank> - Frank
Frank,
I don't know how much of a one-shot deal this is or how much
overhead you are willing to take for ultimate flexibility, but
many projects out there contain a documentation directory in
which a single make command will produce man, html, ps,
texinfo, etc.
The one I most recently looked at was zsh. It's documentation
was in a simple text format -- mostly just the text of the
document, with a few simple formating commands -- and it
produced all the outputs I mention above. The file names had
the extention .yo, I don't know if that is some special
language or not.
You could download the zsh source from www.zsh.org, and simply
copy their Makefiles from their Doc directory and modify as
necessary.
--Rob
P.S. I received my new copy of your book "Using C-Kermit
Communication Software" as well as the "Using MS-DOS Kermit" book
today. They look great, I think it is worth the money -- keep up the
good work.