On 14-08-16 01:01 PM, Norman Gray wrote:
To do this, I took the HTML versions of the FAQ sections, and
normalised them into regular XHTML (which makes them processable
into other forms). With that done, it was straightforward to
transform the result into both HTML for presentation, and into LaTeX
for further transformation into PDF. This depends on the xsltproc
package, and obviously on LaTeX.
[...]
It would be pretty straightforward to generate a .txt FAQ from these
same sources (via *roff).
I find that this work would be useful to me - there are (admittedly
rare) occasions where I want an offline copy of the documentation.
But... shouldn't the "master" copy be in mdoc(7) format? ;-)
Now, if anyone actually took that seriously:
I believe work on doclifter(1) and docbook2mdoc(1) is already in
consideration, perhaps there's an reasonably-automatic way to do the
conversion? If not, I certainly don't think it's worth the time to
change it by hand.
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-Adam Thompson
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