Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Fwd: nroff to xml

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:04:09PM +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
> At 20:27 14/05/2002 +0300, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
> >* Dave Pawson; <davep@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk> on 14 May, 2002 wrote:
> >>
> >>This came up on the xfree86 list.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Our Argentinan contigent is very anxious to translate the man pages 
> >>>(into docbook)
> >>>Don't ask me why :-).  the problem is that they are in nroff.  Is their
> >>>something out there that translates nroff?
> >>
> >>Anyone come across such a tool please?
> >
> >doclifter from Eric Raymond works like a charm sorry I don't recall the
> >URL
> 
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/doclifter/
> 
> Looks like its troff?
> (Excuse my ignorance, are they related? )

Yep.  The troff command produces typeset output, nroff produces
ascii output.  Single-source for multiple outputs.
Just like DocBook.  8^)

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