Re: Documentation in SGML

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 11:20:21PM -0400, Pradeep Padala wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>   I have been hacking on docliter to convert ncurses man pages to sgml. I
> have succeded to a large extent.
>   I put all the sgml files in an easy to use package form and wrote
> two scripts. The whole documentation can be downloaded from
> 
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ppadala/ncdoc/ncdoc.tar.gz

thanks - got a copy (btw, it's not gzip'd).
 
>   The directory html contains the generated documentation. I haven't
> generated man pages from sgml as yet. It can be done very easily with
> docbook tools.
>   I have a question. Do you want to maintain all the man pages in sgml format
> only? If yes, then I will proceed and generate sgml with correct

well first I want to see how hard it is to get comparable documentation
in the existing formats (manpages and html).  Last week I got about halfway
through setting up jade/.../nsgmls before going back to the bugfixes.

> substitutions. In effect, MkTerminfo.sh will generate sgml instead of man 
> page.
> Also, We have to generate sgml for the Ada stuff. I have been working towards
> converting whole ncurses documentation into sgml. I would like to the sgml
> stuff.
> 
>    The converted documentation can be browsed at
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ppadala/ncdoc/html
> 
> Cheers !!!
> --pradeep
> 
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