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Re: [Groff] troff(1) and info


From: Bernd Warken
Subject: Re: [Groff] troff(1) and info
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:28:31 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:45:25AM -0500, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> > 
> > A misunderstanding.  Assume that you prepare a typographically good
> > looking document in groff.  Then you use a hypothetical grodocbook
> > output device to produce SGML.  Finally, a user converts DocBook back
> > to groff for printing.
> 
> Ah, yes.  That *would* be perverse! (:-)

groff is not restricted to printout.  For example, the html interface 
generates a html document.  So you can use the html functionality from
within groff.

Docbook has important structural elements, but XML programming is very
tedious.  So a docbook interface for groff would allow to program Docbook
documents by using the groff language.  Later on you can use the Docbook
programs to generate groff output; but this would be a roff document
intended for direct printout.  This will be quite different from
the first roff source.

So you have:

$ groff -m docbook -T docbook text.grf > text.xml
$ docbook-to-groff text.xml > printout.grf
$ groff -T ps printout.grf | lpr

Moreover, a groff macro package implementing the docbook features
would make the functionality of docbook available for all groff tasks,
even those not related to docbook.

Perverse is the law of Florida by stating that it is a crime if you fuck your
wife using a position different from the missionary position ~]:-^(
In the 1970s, there was a sexual revolution in Germany and other European,
countries, so there aren't any perversities left.  So freeness is the
major tool to prevent crimes !:-)

Bernd Warken
 

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