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- I wrote a simple set of scripts that ran the unformatted man sources
- through nroff with a special set of man macros that did away with the
- page headings/footings, and converted the formatted ascii output into
- html. I wanted to convert any references to things that look like man
- pages (as in "man(1)") to links. What I really wanted was to put the
- man page in a <listing> environment to preserve the formatting, but
- you can't embed anchors there. </LISTING><A ...>...</A><LISTING>
- seems to cause paragraph breaks, not quite what I had in mind.
-
- I finally settled on making a list of the man page references and
- turned them into an extra See Also section at the end of the document.
- Its ugly, but functional. I'll clean up the code and make it
- available if anyone is interested.
-
- It would be nice if there were a thing like LISTING that allowed
- anchors. Are there any plans for such a thing (or maybe there's a way
- to do it now that I don't know about)? It would make the task of
- converting misc text files into HTML much easier.
-
- --- Steve
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