On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Tony Finch wrote: > Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >The question is how to do this without creating a bunch of duplicate, > >difficult to maintain docs. We could just use "man2html" to convert the > >man pages, but this program creates horrible HTML, and would require > >hand-tweaking of the output in any case. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi does a good job -- perhaps we could > adapt it. > > >I don't think there is any way of avoiding the fact that future > >changes will need to be made both to the man page and the html docs. > > I don't see why we can't just re-run the autogeneration of the html > after changing the man page.
Awh, just screw it. These scripts don't really do anything but sprinkle a few "<b>"s around. I don't think it is worth the hassel of customizing one for Apache. Here is an alternate proposal: 1. nroff -man man-page.8 > man-page.txt 2. Remove the page breaks and other assorted crap from man-page.txt. 3. Wrap the darn thing in our basic HTML headers and footers and a great big <pre></pre> block. This will require some manual work when things change, but not a great deal. Any better ideas? Joshua.
