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Re: [groff] html output of Op vs Oo Oc


From: Ingo Schwarze
Subject: Re: [groff] html output of Op vs Oo Oc
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:00:09 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23)

Hi Jan,

Jan Stary wrote on Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 03:32:47PM +0100:

> This is groff 1.22.3 as installed by the OpenBSD port.
> 
> Below please find a short manpage written in mdoc(7),
> which I am trying to process into html with
> 
>       groff -Thtml -mdoc rtpdump.1 > rtpdump.html

Just don't do that.  Instead, simply say

        mandoc -Thtml rtpdump.1 > rtpdump.html

Even in cases where you do not hit outright bugs, converting 
mdoc(7) to HTML with groff loses all the semantic information,
so debugging it isn't worth the effort.

Yours,
  Ingo



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