Re: [Groff] Tabular html output.

[Larry Kollar]

Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:

> > .... For tables, I've banged together an awk
> > script that converts a small subset of tbl to HTML, and *almost*
> > works....
>
> Do you like to share this script ?
> Would be really niche to have. We are almost using simple tables in 
> some
> marketing documents which have to life on paper and the www.

Sure. I just shook out a serious bug, so here's a copy that works with
the attached test file. :-) Use a pipe like this to build HTML:

        awk -f htbl.awk test.ms | groff -Thtml -ms >test.html

I hope this inspires some hacking among awk and other experts here....
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