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From: David Cramer
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook to man pages XSL
Hi Bob,
The output from links is very nice with two exceptions: 1) there's a
line break after each bullet/number in listitems (liptext/p/li
doesn't go over
Hi Bob,
The output from links is very nice with two exceptions: 1) there's a line break after
each bullet/number in listitems (liptext/p/li doesn't go over well with
links). 2) there's a character that shows up as ^@ in more/less or as a box in notepad
before each step number in a procedure.
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From: Kevin Conder
So for now we're using Gavin Spearhead's html2text, an
unsupported freeware
Windows app that's reasonably configurable and does a nice
job with tables.
I use lynx in Windows at work. It works like a charm:
lynx -dump
-nolist
We gave db2man a try. The biggest problem we found was that the nroff output
does not appear to format tables - each cell is rendered on a separate line.
If db2man is still under development, I wonder if formatted text would be a
better output than nroff, which some flavors of UNIX no longer
Are you using one of the text-based web browsers
to convert HTML to text? I'm currently using
links (no, not lynx) from
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/
and it handles tables nicely. It even does
frames!
And then there is the venerable lynx which I think
handles tables
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Bradford, Denis wrote:
Are you using one of the text-based web browsers
to convert HTML to text?
All of these have a dump option to let you save
the generated text into a file.
So for now we're using Gavin Spearhead's html2text, an unsupported freeware
Windows
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 04:56:32PM -0500, Bradford, Denis wrote:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=468779group_id=219
35atid=373749
Hello Martijn,
I need to generate some man pages from docbook sources. I'm happy to see
db2man, and would like to try it out.
I've
