Subject: Re: NetBSD C library source and documentation in hypertext (HTML) format.
To: None <too@ajk.tele.fi>
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
List: current-users
Date: 05/08/1997 14:41:11
Tomi Ollila <too@ajk.tele.fi> writes:
> Known problems:
> 
>   Hypertext link generation does not check manual page numbers
>   (i.e. sysctl(3) and sysctl(8) links points to the same page).
>   this is easy to fix.

BTW, the NetBSD manual pages are also available at
http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/cgi/man.cgi?proto=1.0&manpath=netbsd


>   mandoc2html.perl is a quick hack (this was a school assigment),
>   and it was fun to create. It does only `andoc', not `an'. Some
>   [gtn]roff wizard should take a look of it (take the useful parts
>   to totally new parser).  Anyway, even in this current state, the
>   output is pretty good in most cases.

Do you know unroff? Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable,
extensible troff translator with a back-end for the Hypertext Markup
Language.

http://www-rn.informatik.uni-bremen.de/software/unroff/

-- 
Wolfram Schneider    <wosch@apfel.de>    http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/