Re: [Groff] groff developments - query about any interest?

[John Gardner]

>
> even though massive amount of *manpower* has been put in this


I'm calling you out on that pun. =)

Regarding HTML... I fully hear what you're saying. Somebody asked for a
realtime preview of manual-page editing
<https://github.com/Alhadis/language-roff/issues/3> for Atom (a text editor
which is built using web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc). I
thought it'd be simple to implement in barebones HTML, but quickly realised
what I was getting myself into.

So I've decided to use HTML5 <canvas> instead, piping Groff's intermediate
output through a separate process and lexing the instructions to plot basic
drawing operations in a side pane. Heck of a lot simpler than translating
HTML to/from *Roff... =)

On 20 November 2016 at 02:13, Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden> wrote:

> <address@hidden> wrote:
>  |Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote (Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:02:52 +0100
>  |(CET)):
>  ...
>  |> Alas, Vienna is a bit too far away from Berlin...  BTW, what do you
>  |> mean with `left behind'?
>  ...
>  |Also:
>  |markdown/ ReST -> HTML is superior to groff -> HTML.
>
> Surely this is not necessarily true.  I would love to have a HTML
> filter that just works, in order to simply convert Unix manual
> pages to HTML if i want to.  (And, yes, with mdocmx anchors and
> thus fully interlinked.)  Unfortunately it is not that easy even
> though massive amount of manpower has been put in this, but if
> i convert the manual of the MUA i am sticking in so much that
> i seem to have disappeared i need two of my work days of manual
> adjustments to get it done, so, and only because of this, i agree.
> Otherwise i would not.  Oh yes, there is plenty of interest.
>
> --steffen
>
>