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- In our HTML files, I frequently want to refer the reader to man-pages
- or the GNU documentation. So, I wrote two small scripts to convert
- man-pages and GNU Info files to HTML and added a bit of code to
- the HTTPD daemon to call these filters if it found a .man or a .info
- file. With this, one can write f.e.
- "<A HREF=http://kaa.cs.few.eur.nl/info/gcc/gcc.info>GCC</A>"
- to refer to the (extensive) documentation for the GNU C compiler.
- So far, so good.
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- The Info files are the GNU equivalent of man pages and they
- are complete formatted documents that contain references.
- The problem I've run into is that HTML does not offer a mode in
- which all formatting is preserved *and* tags are recognised.
- The LISTING mode does preserve the formatting but does not see the
- hypertext references; the NORMAL mode does recognise the references
- but destroys the formatting (indentation, line breaks).
- Switching from LISTING to NORMAL mode (and back) in the middle of
- a paragraph is not feasible either because that will cause a blank line
- to be inserted at that point.
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- It would be handy to have a mode that does preserve formatting and
- recognizes SGML tags since there are no doubt other hypertext formats
- that could be converted to HTML this way.
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- Thoughts anyone ?
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