On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Caspian wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:29:29AM -0500, Caspian wrote: > > > I'm a crack Perl and PHP hacker. I can do the various things on the Web > > > that are necessary. I can also host the domain if necessary. :) > > > > As perl hacker you should make free replacements of all these > > little non-free tools that still exists somehow in centre of free world > > Such as? :) A list of such things (things that would be feasible to > replace with clever Perl work) would be much appreciated..
I take all these ideas from /var/state/apt/lists/ftp*non-free* :) There might be some bugs on this task list, this is only fast look-thru Marked positions are the most prpmising The task list (not all for you, for anyone who wants and can) : CKJV: (CKJV is all very non-free, should be changed) a2ps-perl-ja *tex extensions: (some will be simple, others not) abc2mtex ( !!! ) arabtex lgrind opustex musixtex (+ -doc) tools/frontends : (the main work) archie xarchie btoa ( !!! ) calctool - not certainly perl but should be simple chktex ( !!! ) need investigation : clustalw frotz imgstar lclint (+ -doc) mmm rman treetool not-in-perl : mp3asm tgif editors : (someone should make free similar ones, not-in-perl) axe nedit patent problems (not-in-perl) : whirlgif - make other-format-servicing alternative semi-done : html2latex wwwtable xearth important mistake of packages' author : xevil changed license and is not free. it was. we should back to last free version > > > > ps: > > Im making replacemnts of html2latex and wwwtable now > > They are both in beta state now. > > Still searching for testers > > > > What does wwwtable do? :) Makes tables of something? you give some html with tag wwwtable inside and it converts it to html with normal html table, not touch the rest of file: ex: ... <wwwtable border> (1,1) bgcolor=red foo (1,2) bgcolor=blue bar (1,3) bgcolor=green baz (2,*) quux (3,1) colspan=2 muux </wwtable> ... to exactly what it should nice thing the only problem I had with html was guessing which in cell this text will be placed
