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Re: [Groff] tbl like structures


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Groff] tbl like structures
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 21:47:25 +0100

Hi Jonas,

>      - Produce nice groff -Thtml -m man output

Are you aware that -Thtml is `work in progress' and so might not produce
nice HTML for certain normal -man input.  Don't know if that's true in
your case, but worth pointing out.

Personally, I try to get the default PostScript output looking like a
fine man page.  It normally follows that man(1) output is acceptable.
But then, that was before -Thtml existed so maybe I'm wrong to work that
way.

> 2nd: the html output of the table differs from the rest (I more like a
> uniform stlye

Fair enough.

> > It does sound like you're fighting against the man macros.  Can you
> > tell us *why* they need to be different.  If it's author preference
> > over how something is laid out then that isn't particularly what the
> > man macros are aimed at.  They're meant to present documentation in
> > a uniform, standard, way.
> 
> hmm, I agree 100%. My problem is: I have no idea how it is supposed to
> be used. It can't be the attempts I tried as their results just look
> ugly, so my first attempt was to change the options to get a better
> output.

You're aware of http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Man-Page.html?

Cheers,


Ralph.


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