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Re: Lout to HTML translator ?
From: |
Ian Jackson |
Subject: |
Re: Lout to HTML translator ? |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Sep 94 13:00 BST |
rodrigo vanegas writes ("Re: Lout to HTML translator ? "):
> [...]
> Ian Jackson's Linux FAQ. This is a real hack but it works for at
> least one person. It also has three output formats.
> * Info files
> * plain 7bit ASCII
> * Lout -> PostScript
> You should ask Ian personally. His email is: address@hidden
I'm here too :-). I just thought I'd point out that the conversion
script now also produces HTML, and that I've split the ASCII output
into two, providing a plain ASCII text file and a two-part news
posting.
There's not very much code involved (275 lines for the core script and
about 200 lines for each of the 5 often very similar back-ends), and
it's easy to make it do what you want if you know Perl and have me to
help explain it - there's no documentation. If you don't know Perl,
and don't want to learn it, you should forget it.
Examples of the input and output can be found here:
Source, Info, Lout/PostScript and plain ASCII by FTP from
sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/docs/FAQ:
linux-faq.info.gz
linux-faq.ps.gz (output of lout -idoc linux-faq.lout)
linux-faq.ascii
linux-faq.source.tar.gz
HTML on the Web at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/linux-faq/
News postings' Message-IDs (in news.answers et al):
<address@hidden>
<address@hidden>
(these are also on rtfm.mit.edu.)
Ian.