> If I remember right - and I might not - I looked into an > html driver or terminal type for troff, but gave up and > did man2html instead, which took a radically smpler > tack than ms2html and scored a little better overall > but much worse in some cases.
I agree that modifying troff to add a driver wouldn't work, because troff still thinks it is in charge of various layout decisions and works at too low a level. Troff2html fails (when it does) for basically the same reasons. Ms2html, while originally intended to handle the -ms macros directly, now has machinery in it to run arbitrary troff macros. I think that if this were fleshed out and a few primtives for HTML added, then the HTML and -ms details could be moved completely out into macro libraries. > Don't you think a better long-term plan would be > to abandon troff? Yes. But for what? Russ
