On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:43:51PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:12:17AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +1000, Iain wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? > > > Sounds really rather difficult - how are you going to get them into the > > usual style for Unix man pages? I'd regard HTML as a target format, not > > a source format, unless they're in a very constrained style. > > If you want to do something like that then DocBook provides reference > pages which are designed to produce man pages.
Indeed. There's even a template in /usr/share/doc/man-db/examples/manpage.example.sgml.gz, although it may not be perfect; send improvements to the BTS if you have any. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
