Re: ✘Doc files: .adoc, .html, .xml

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Eric!

On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 17:43:11 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com>:
> > Pandoc is interesting:
> >         https://pandoc.org/
> > 
> > It is available in Gentoo unstable, but not Gentoo stable.  And only
> > depends on 129 unstable Haskell packages.  Ouch.
> > 
> > It can convert between most doc formats.  So maybe I can use it to
> > convert the existing .xml manpage to asciidoc.  
> 
> My experience wityh pandoc is that it dpes a very poor
> lowest-common-denmominator translation job.  Don't go there; I alrwady
> sent you a better conversion script.

Can you please resend?

RGDS
GARY
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