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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Fwd: nroff to xml
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:04:09PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote: > At 20:27 14/05/2002 +0300, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: > >* Dave Pawson; <davep@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk> on 14 May, 2002 wrote: > >> > >>This came up on the xfree86 list. > >> > >> > >>>Our Argentinan contigent is very anxious to translate the man pages > >>>(into docbook) > >>>Don't ask me why :-). the problem is that they are in nroff. Is their > >>>something out there that translates nroff? > >> > >>Anyone come across such a tool please? > > > >doclifter from Eric Raymond works like a charm sorry I don't recall the > >URL > > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/doclifter/ > > Looks like its troff? > (Excuse my ignorance, are they related? ) Yep. The troff command produces typeset output, nroff produces ascii output. Single-source for multiple outputs. Just like DocBook. 8^) -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@caldera.com
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