Hi Anthony,

Anthony J. Bentley wrote on Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:33:34AM -0600:

> The doclifter program translates documents written in troff macros to
> DocBook.

OK schwarze@.

Thanks for doing this work.
  Ingo

> Lifting documents from presentation level to semantic level is hard, and
> a really good job requires human polishing. This tool aims to do
> everything that can be mechanized, and to preserve any troff-level
> information that might have structural implications in XML comments.
> 
> This tool does the hard parts. TBL tables are translated into DocBook
> table markup, PIC into SVG, and EQN into MathML (relying on pic2svg and
> GNU eqn for the last two).
> 
> 
> doclifter works pretty well. manlifter doesn't work at all (there is a
> bug that makes it unusable when manpages are uncompressed), but it is
> basically just the former run recursively. Ingo thinks manlifter is not
> necessary for this to go in, and I agree.

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