(Danny Thomas) writes:
> I'm wondering what is around to convert unix manpages into DocBook. Assume
> the source manpages are cleanly and comprehensively marked up, BSD mandoc
> style.
Nothing that I know of.
ROFF macros are procedural, whereas SGML/XML is descriptive markup.
So any solution is only going to be a 60% solution anyhow.
> PS I also interested to know what conversions are available from DocBook to
> mandoc manpages. I'm mainly interested in whether DocBook can be an
> internal representation for holding manpages but also convertable to html,
> pdf etc in perhaps better ways (eg HTML CSS) than the normal manpage
> converters. The distinction is I'm not looking to convert arbitrary DocBook
> to manpag, just the subset of DocBook likely to be produced from a manpage
> -> DocBook conversion.
docbook2x is a good tool
<URL:http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
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