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Re: [Groff] Suggested tbl enhancement
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Gaius Mulley |
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Re: [Groff] Suggested tbl enhancement |
Date: |
12 May 2006 21:47:29 +0100 |
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Larry Kollar <address@hidden> writes:
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > > It sounds like a good idea, but there are so many potential
> > > enhancements that would make tbl easier to live with that it's
> > > almost worth a rewrite.
> >
> > Hmm, can you post a TODO, please?
>
> My short list is primarily cosmetic (the goal is to require a minimal
> amount of primitive markup) and there are workarounds to most of
> them.
>
> 1 HTML support (would probably require changes to the groff wrapper
> to pass a command-line option to tbl for -Thtml)
yes this would be a good modification.. I was wondering whether it
would be better for tbl to emit .HTML <tag> sequences for whether it
would be better for tbl to emit grohtml meta tags which post-grohtml
detects and converts into appropriate html tags. I'm leaning towards
the later as post-grohtml can produce tidier output and deferring
a decision late in the pipeline should mean one can catch combinations
of event tags. On the other hand it is more complex :-(
> > Additionally, I ask you to further test Joachim's `HDtbl' package
> >
> > ftp://ftp.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/HDtbl/0.91
>
> The introduction is here, if anyone wants to see what it's doing:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-12/msg00003.html
yes, really useful to examine and borrow ideas from..
regards,
Gaius