Re: [ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: [snip] Man!!! As if loving man pages was a pre-requisite for loving the OS!!! It's not just man. I also hate apropos. Amd I think GNU /bin/yes is buggy and lacks important features. -Taj. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 30-Apr-08, at 10:03 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: I am here to destroy my little cred as a long-time unix-lover with a single statement: I really don't like man pages. don't tell me you have stopped wearing a hair shirt and no longer sleep on a bed of nails. Shame on you. Oh I do. But now it's more out of habit than conviction. -Taj. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?
I am here to destroy my little cred as a long-time unix-lover with a single statement: I really don't like man pages. -- rant, please ignore - They are sometimes nice as a reference, terrible as tutorials, and very bad for searching for specific pieces of information when you don't know the exact term to search with, scaling very poorly when they grow large (take a look at the man page for bash if you don't believe me). Some tools come with docs in the truly lovely and usable info format (thanks tons KDE et al for actually making it possible to read info without wondering how to close the viewer), but these not very common. -- What I am looking for is something that can convert a given man page to HTML or some other similar format, with such new-fangled features like a useful table of contents, perhaps even an index. Is there some tool to do this? -Taj. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sirtaj == Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sirtaj What I am looking for is something that can convert a given man page to Sirtaj HTML or some other similar format, with such new-fangled features like Sirtaj a useful table of contents, perhaps even an index. Sirtaj Is there some tool to do this? man2html[1], konqueror already does this, when you do, man:ls . Sirtaj -Taj. [1] - http://www.nongnu.org/man2html/ HTH - -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIGKJlHy+EEHYuXnQRAiLyAKCB9AGmYzmcdtuA1L0ZMZ7Ov4efcgCgvMik xfzOLFavhMoST5rkvbPUmAc= =DQNc -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: [snip] man2html[1], konqueror already does this, when you do, man:ls . I'm aware of that, and yes it's a pretty major improvement from reading the page in a terminal, but it still doesn't do TOC or hyperlinks of any kind. I grok the problem that troff is not really designed for semantic markup but for presentation, but surely there are some heuristics that can be applied for conversions in the common case... -Taj. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: [snip] man2html[1], konqueror already does this, when you do, man:ls . I'm aware of that, and yes it's a pretty major improvement from reading the page in a terminal, but it still doesn't do TOC or hyperlinks of any kind. I grok the problem that troff is not really designed for semantic markup but for presentation, but surely there are some heuristics that can be applied for conversions in the common case... -Taj. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ Hi, You can try TkMan (http://tkman.sourceforge.net) as man pages and texinfo browser. Or if you really wish to export the contents to HTML then maybe PolyglotMan (http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net) can be of some help, btw I've never tried using this software :) Regards, Mayank ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Convert man pages to hyperlinked doc?
On 30-Apr-08, at 10:03 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: I am here to destroy my little cred as a long-time unix-lover with a single statement: I really don't like man pages. don't tell me you have stopped wearing a hair shirt and no longer sleep on a bed of nails. Shame on you. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
