Re: [Groff] Escaping punctuation marks in troff

[Larry Kollar]

> > 2. secondly, I want to parse a 'html' file and convert it to troff 
> > format.
> > so, i cannot change the characters.
>
> Surely it could be filtered through sed on the way to troff...?

If it's plain HTML (not a lot of <span> or <font> tags), the best way
to convert HTML to *roff is to first use HTML Tidy to make sure the
file is well-formed XML, then use an XSLT script to convert to *roff.
Use sed to clean up blank lines, change character entities (stuff
like "&lquot;" to *roff special characters, and so forth.

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