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| <tr><td width=20><td><b>TROFF2HTML(1)</b><td align=right><b>TROFF2HTML(1)</b> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>NAME </b></font><br> |
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| troff2html – convert troff output into HTML<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SYNOPSIS </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>troff2html</font></tt> [ <tt><font size=+1>−t</font></tt> <i>title</i> ] [ <i>file</i> ... ]<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>DESCRIPTION </b></font><br> |
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| <i>Troff2html</i> reads the <a href="../man1/troff.html"><i>troff</i>(1)</a> output in the named <i>files</i>, default |
| standard input, and converts them into HTML. |
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| <i>Troff2html</i> does a tolerable job with straight <tt><font size=+1>troff</font></tt> output, but |
| it is helped by annotations, described below. Its main use is |
| for <tt><font size=+1>man2html</font></tt> (see Plan 9’s <i>httpd</i>(8)), which converts <a href="../man1/man.html"><i>man</i>(1)</a> pages |
| into HTML and depends on a specially annotated set of <a href="../man6/man.html"><i>man</i>(6)</a> macros, |
| invoked by <tt><font size=+1>troff −manhtml</font></tt>. |
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| <tt><font size=+1>Troff</font></tt> output lines beginning<br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>x X html</font></tt> ...<br> |
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| which are introduced by placing <tt><font size=+1>\X'html</font></tt> ...<tt><font size=+1>'</font></tt> in the <i>input</i>, cause |
| the rest of the line to be interpolated into the HTML produced. |
| Several such lines are recognized specially by <i>troff2html</i>. The |
| most important are the pair<br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>x X html manref start cp 1<br> |
| x X html manref end cp 1<br> |
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| which are used to create HTML hyperlinks around text of the form |
| <a href="../man1/cp.html"><i>cp</i>(1)</a> pointing to <tt><font size=+1>/magic/man2html/1/cp</font></tt>. |
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| <i>Troff2html</i> is new and experimental; in time, it may improve and |
| subsume <a href="../man1/ms2html.html"><i>ms2html</i>(1)</a>. On the one hand, because it uses the input, |
| <tt><font size=+1>ms2html</font></tt> can handle <a href="../man1/pic.html"><i>pic</i>(1)</a>, <a href="../man1/eqn.html"><i>eqn</i>(1)</a>, etc., which <i>troff2html</i> does |
| not handle at all; on the other hand, <tt><font size=+1>ms2html</font></tt> understands only |
| <a href="../man6/ms.html"><i>ms</i>(6)</a> documents and is easily confused by complex |
| <tt><font size=+1>troff</font></tt> constructions. <i>Troff2html</i> has the reverse properties: it |
| does not handle the preprocessors but its output is reliable and |
| (modulo helper annotations) is independent of macro package.<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SEE ALSO </b></font><br> |
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| <a href="../man1/troff.html"><i>troff</i>(1)</a>, <a href="../man1/ms2html.html"><i>ms2html</i>(1)</a>, <tt><font size=+1>man2html</font></tt> in <a href="../man8/httpd.html"><i>httpd</i>(8)</a>.<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>BUGS </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>Troff</font></tt> and HTML have different models, and they don’t mesh well |
| in all cases. <tt><font size=+1>Troff</font></tt>’s indented paragraphs are not well served |
| in HTML, and the output of <i>troff2html</i> shows this.<br> |
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