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Re: [Groff] ESR in manpages versus the WEB
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Gunnar Ritter |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] ESR in manpages versus the WEB |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:54:58 +0100 |
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Heirloom mailx 12.2pre 12/28/06 |
Larry Kollar <address@hidden> wrote:
> Gunnar Ritter wrote:
>
> >> D.E. Evans asked about an improved grohtml, or even a replacement.
> >> Perhaps grohtml can be improved.
> >
> > grohtml is broken by concept. It is thus impossible that
> > it will ever reach a satisfying state.
>
> This is a little off the subject, but I disagree. I'm already using
> grohtml to generate useful HTML. True, you can't do it with bog-
> standard macros,
Which means that it is far away from an ordinary troff
postprocessor which simply handles anything it gets, at
least as far as text is concerned.
> but using -mwww (which I know Heirloom
> doesn't support) and some customization, helps a lot.
I do not doubt that one can create troff input which is
convertible to HTML, but this still helps nothing for the
general case.
> But even if you aren't interested in generating (or converting to)
> HTML, whether markup is structured or presentational basically
> depends on what you call it. :-)
No. A .rt, for example, is always presentational.
Gunnar
- Re: <OK> Re: [Groff] ESR in manpages versus the WEB, (continued)
- Re: <OK> Re: [Groff] ESR in manpages versus the WEB, Gunnar Ritter, 2007/01/01
- Re: <OK> Re: [Groff] ESR in manpages versus the WEB, Clarke Echols, 2007/01/02
- Re: <OK> Re: [Groff] ESR in manpages versus the WEB, Miklos Somogyi, 2007/01/03
- [Groff] Multiple description lines in DocBook [was: ESR in manpages versus the WEB], Michael(tm) Smith, 2007/01/03
- Re: [Groff] Multiple description lines in DocBook [was: ESR in manpages versus the WEB], Eric S. Raymond, 2007/01/03
- Re: [Groff] Multiple description lines in DocBook, Michael(tm) Smith, 2007/01/03
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