discuss: linuxdoc text backend
Subject:
Re: [discuss] linuxdoc text backend
From:
Stein Gjoen ####@####.####
Date:
14 Oct 2005 18:17:33 -0000
Message-Id: <434FF5BE.4070603@mail.nyx.net>
Hello,
steven aatkinson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious about the state of the script generated text documents,
> which have embedded special characters. The documents only seem
The LinuxDoc package is now maintained by Taketoshi Sano
mailto:sano(despammed at)debian(dot)org
This means you can use the Debian bugtracker to check and add
bug reports.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linuxdoc-tools
> to render properly using "more" and "less -r". Web browsers and most
> text viewers present the special chacters in an ugly fashion.
> Afaik the "sgml2txt"/"linuxdoc -B text" command doesn't have an option that
> correctly removes these special characters and I had to make a sed
> script to do
> so.(The script I use attached).
>
> Does anyone know about this ?
It would appear this could match Debian bug report
#175575 "linuxdoc text rendition contains escape sequences".
Moreover the briefest perusal suggests there are a few bugs,
some of which are 9 years old, some reports contain patches,
so it would appear that maintenance of LinuxDoc-tools has
not been the highest priorities.
Does anyone here feel like taking over maintenance of it?
Regards,
Stein Gjoen
