discuss: man to DocBook?
Subject:
Re: man to DocBook?
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
18 Sep 2001 03:43:19 -0000
Message-Id: <20010917234135.E879@lupercalia.net>
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:55:48PM -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote:
> Sandy Harris ####@####.#### writes:
>
> > Does anyone know of a tool that will convert [ntg]roff man page
> > source to DocBook?
> >
> > man pages have a well-defined structure and DocBook includes tags
> > for that structure, so this should be possible in principle. My
> > guess is it will be messy in practice.
> >
> > I know I can go man -> HTML -> DocBook, nut I suspect that will
> > mangle things badly.
>
> Try this one. :-)
>
> http://tuxedo.org/~esr/doclifter
Very cool. Have you tried it?
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Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
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