Subject: Re: HTML documentation and such
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: David Leonard <leonard@csee.uq.edu.au>
List: current-users
Date: 05/10/1998 20:05:32
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> I have begun work on a perl script that will convert mdoc(7) source to HTML
> 3.2. I am aware that there are endless man2html converters out there, but
> so far as I know, all of them operate on the [nt]roff *output*, which is
> wrong - too much semantic information loss.

maybe some ?roff guru could make a dev* directory for the 'html' device?
At the very least you could use a postprocessor on the output...

d
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