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.
