Re: [Groff] Tabular html output.

[Bruno Hertz]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 03:51, Larry Kollar wrote:

> .\" Usage:   .Tab2 left right
> .de Tab2
> .  ie !'\\*[.T]'html' \{\
> .  ta 17cR
> \\$1\t\\$2
> .\}
> .el \{\
> .  HTML <table border='0'><tr>
> .  HTML <td align='left'>\\$1</td><td align='right'>\\$2</td>
> .  HTML </tr></table>
> .\}
> ..

I take recommending direct HTML text inclusion via macros as
a hint that grohtml is not yet ready for this kind of stuff.
That's what I was wondering about, how much to expect from
this backend (I'm aware of the difficulties it has to tackle
btw).

Anyway, your proposition seems a reasonable way to go. An
alternative might be nroff->ascii->html with an appropriate
ascii to html translator. Looks like the right time to do a
little experimenting :)

Anyway, thanks very much for your pointer, Larry. And for
UTP too, of course, which I'm currently reading to properly
learn troff in the first place. Great work.

Bruno