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- From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
- Subject: Re: Easy way to create unix man pages?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.040514.11824@netcom.com>
- Keywords: unix manual hypertext
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <1992Dec17.165257.9439@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:05:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.165257.9439@oakhill.sps.mot.com> wcl@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Wayne Long) writes:
- >
- >I'm looking for a filter, utility, or editor that
- >will take normal, what-you-see-is-what-you get
- >text, and convert it into a unix man page with
- >minimal hassle.
- >
- >I realize that some of the major sections and headings
- >would have to be delimeted in some way, but I'd like to
- >be able to do this editing with a normal text editor
- >(or framemaker or MacIntosh Word) in as minimally
- >cryptic way as possible.
-
- One route is GNU texinfo -> texi2roff. I think texi2roff is not
- finished yet/ever. It was not part of texinfo, last I looked.
-
- Probably easier is just using an existing troff document as skeleton.
- -Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>
-