Carl Lowenstein wrote: >.. > I will point out again that making nice-looking tables from > tab-delimited input is precisely what Unix tbl(1) was built for. And > that must have been around 1978 or so. The more modern idea of > converting troff(1) output into HTML comes with groff.
I guess I am so ignorant about it that I am intimidated by roff. My first reaction is what is a sample command line recipe? I try something like echo "hello world" | tbl | groff and get 200 lines of output! Alright, I look more carefully and see it is good postscript. Now I read man groff, and try the -T html, and indeed do get html echo "hello world" | tbl | groff -T So I guess it looks promising -- now I just need to learn the language that tbl uses to interpret input to create groff markup -- is that close? The groff part does seem transparent, but now I'm intimidated by tbl. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
