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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook to man pages XSL
> From: "Bradford, Denis" <denisb@rational.com> > > We gave db2man a try. The biggest problem we found was that the nroff output > does not appear to format tables - each cell is rendered on a separate line. > If db2man is still under development, I wonder if formatted text would be a > better output than nroff, which some flavors of UNIX no longer support. > > In fact, the whole experience makes me think that maybe a docbook -> text > style sheet is the best general solution. For now, we've resorted to running > our refentry documents through html.xsl, then hacking the html to formatted > text. The last step turns out to be surprisingly difficult. Are you using one of the text-based web browsers to convert HTML to text? I'm currently using "links" (no, not lynx) from http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/ and it handles tables nicely. It even does frames! And then there is the venerable lynx which I think handles tables now, and another called w3m from Japan http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/ All of these have a "dump" option to let you save the generated text into a file. bobs Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@caldera.com
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