On 09/21/2013 07:20:22 AM, John Spencer wrote:
On 09/20/2013 07:54 PM, Felix Janda wrote:
John Spencer wrote:
...
much more likely to me that one can produce output
which makes your man implementation happy. The equations are already
hacked to make them better suitable for nroff.
i agree that the output of tbl is even worse...
btw my research on http://www.troff.org/papers.html revealed that tbl
and eqn preprocessors existed back in the troff days, so this seems
to be a historical mistake rather than groff's fault ;)
Eric Raymond's doclifter project was a python script that parsed man
pages to produce docbook output. There's more horrible domain-specific
knowledge encoded into that than you can possibly imagine, you might
want to poke esr@xxxxxxxxxxx to see if he wants to comment on your
thing.
Rob--
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