Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : halibut Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Simon Tatham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut.html * License : MIT Description : yet another free document preparation system
This is yet another text formatting system, intended primarily for writing software documentation. It accepts a single source format and outputs a variety of formats, including text, HTML, man pages, and Windows Help. It has comprehensive indexing and cross-referencing support, and generates hyperlinks within output documents wherever possible. It supports Unicode, with the ability to fall back to an alternative representation when Unicode output is not available. The main reason I'm packaging this is that the PuTTY documentation is written in Halibut (yes, PuTTY is in Debian), and build-depending on this package will let me ship it in a more useful form. However, I've also had a request from a developer of another project using Halibut for documentation to have it available as a Debian package, and it may be useful e.g. to people looking for a way to write man pages that's more readable than *roff but less complicated and verbose than DocBook. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]