Ken Hornstein writes: > >I think times when it would be useful to have the man pages rendered on > >the web include > > I think making this available on the web, in addition to the normal > man pages included with the distribution, would be great. I'm just not > sure of the rendering method, and where to put it (I guess we could put > it in the nmh web pages that are stored on Savannah).
There are a number of troff-to-html converters. In my experience the best one is mandoc: http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ Mandoc is excellent for -mdoc manuals, generating clean, semantic markup from it. Results are more variable with -man manuals like nmh's, because -man is not semantic and so mandoc has to do a lot more guesswork to generate the HTML (as must every man-to-html converter). It still does quite a good job; see the X manual for example: http://man.openbsd.org/X.7 Side note: I've thought about converting the nmh documentation to -mdoc (which is really a very good format with a nice long Unix heritage, and these days is probably the second most used troff macro set after -man)... but it would be quite a lot of work. -- Anthony J. Bentley _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
