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Article: 12872 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: Igor Sobrado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Dumb question about man pages
Date: 22 Oct 2001 13:24:24 GMT
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Thomas A. Horsley <Tom.Horsley@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>Or of a way to produce a UNIX man page and an HTML document from
>>common (plain-text) source?
> Perl (www.perl.com is a good starting place) uses a format it calls POD
> (plain old documentation) and has converters from POD to hmtl, man pages,
> and many other formats (I personally hate POD, but some people love it).
Perl is a powerful scripting language. (but I do not know it yet.)
You can find and nroff to HTML translator at:
ftp://ftp.uci.edu/pub/dtd2html/man2html2.1.0.tar.gz for a too
(I haven't tested it!)
IMHO to work in nroff, translating the source code to HTML, is better
than working in HTML translating the file to nroff. I hate to see how
the Unix manual pages are being dropped (for example, has Communicator
a man page? And Acrobat Reader? And FrameMaker?)
I think that work on the actual nroff source, translating it to HTML
if required, is a better option... but it is only my opinion...
Cheers,
Igor.
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Igor Sobrado, UK34436 - sobrado@acm.org