Re: [Groff] groff as a wiki langauge?

[Larry Kollar]

Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> > It's not clear to me why you get such bad formatting results.
> Partly because it's difficult to strip away the non wiki content from
> the web page (navigation bar, advertisement on the corner, "feed back"
> input textarea);

If the wiki structures the HTML properly, all the various areas  
should be contained within div tags. It should be simple to extract  
only the content using an XSLT script.

> Partly because there is no way to specify when this gets printed, how
> the page header, footer look like. e.g. it's not possible to have a
> front page with only title of document and author, date, centered  
> in the
> page. I have to copy content from wiki into OpenOffice and format  
> it there.

You can load HTML documents directly into OpenOffice. Of course, if  
you convert your wiki pages to groff, you can use the -Thtml output  
device and a little filtering to get HTML that will work quite nicely  
with OpenOffice.

-- Larry