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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: doclifter 1.0.0 released - converts man pages to DocBook
Eric S. Raymond recently released v1.0.0 of doclifter, a Python 2.2 utility that converts man pages and other troff/nroff/groff documents to DocBook XML and SGML. I wrote up a short news item about it: http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1749 Here's a summary of the main features: * converts man, mandoc, ms, me, and TkMan page sources * parses command/function synopses and converts them into DocBook markup (using Cmdsynopsis, Arg, Replaceable etc. elements) * recognizes 'stereotyped' patterns of markup and content (such as the use of italics in a FILES section to mark filenames) and 'lifts' them into DocBook markup * recognizes things such as URLs, email addresses, man page references, and C program listings, and lifts them into DocBook * maintains a record of semantic 'hints' it picks up from analyzing source docs (especially from command/function synopses), and provides a means to edit, add to, and save that record
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