Hi George, On Wed, Nov 16 2016 at 10:15:15 AM, G Helffrich <ghf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ralph suggested that I provide some example output; please see > attached links. One is simple (eqn, tbl, pic functionality demo) and > the other is math-heavy with SVG output of EPS figures included via > .PSPIC. > > The key parts for integration with the groff code base are the > tools for eqn to LaTeX translation (whose output gets embedded in the > html) and for table to html translation (to integrate with groff’s > html back-end). > > http://members.elsi.jp/~george/test.html > http://members.elsi.jp/~george/ms.html
In order to evaluate what should be done to integrate your work, I think we first need to set up an environment to re-generate your examples with the current version of all your tools, and then try to duplicate the whole process on up-to-date tools. I understand from your previous mail that you use a very old groff version and use 'unroff', which (according to the url you gave http://www-rn.informatik.uni-bremen.de/software/unroff) is unmaintained for nearly 20 years, and it also relies on an extension of the Scheme language called ELK at version 3.0. The author of unroff was also the original author of ELK but in the meantime the maintainer changed and the latest version is 3.99.x; but I'm not sure it is actively maintained (see http://sam.zoy.org/elk/ some links are broken, the latest commit on trunk was in 2011). Which means there are lots of work to come and patching eqn or tbl is only part of the work. Could you describe exactly which tools you are using (which version of groff, unroff, elk, and the url from where you downloaded them) on which distribution and describe all the steps to generate your html files? I can have a try, but to be honest the unroff INSTALL file does not look very friendly to me ("Check the site and compiler dependencies at the beginning of the Makefile and modify them if necessary"...). Regards, -- Bertrand Garrigues
