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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Easy way to create unix man pages?
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Keywords: unix manual hypertext
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1992Dec17.165257.9439@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1992Dec18.040514.11824@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:04:44 GMT
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In article <1992Dec18.040514.11824@netcom.com> alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) writes:
> One route is GNU texinfo -> texi2roff. I think texi2roff is not
> finished yet/ever.  It was  not part of texinfo, last I looked.

The ICA toolkit provides the basic tools for doing this sort of thing,
by using an SGML DTD for the intermediate. I have been involved with
the CFCM effort to provide an SGML DTD for online documentation (man
pages), but I haven't been tracking it lately.
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