Re: [Groff] Bad table images with groff -t -man -Thtml xxx.1

[Rick Richardson]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:07:53PM -0600, Rick Richardson wrote:
> 
> I tried running the attached manual page thru groff to produce HTML.
> 
> The command I used was:
> 
>       $ groff -t -man -Thtml xxx.1 > xxx.html
> 
> The groff is from RH 7.2:
> 
>       $ groff -Thtml --version
>               GNU groff version 1.17.2
>               GNU soelim (groff) version 1.17.2
>               GNU post-grohtml (groff) version 1.17.2
>               GNU pre-grohtml (groff) version 1.17.2
> 
> The manual page HTML ends up with two problems:
> 
> 1) No vertical space between paragraphs
> 
> 2) The table image is completely wrong.  It looks like a
>    clipping of what on the manual page from about 1" lower.
> 
> This latter problem is the one I really want help with.
> Is there some magic option I need to make the image clipping
> align with the table?

And the answer to my question is to use this command line with groff
version 1.17.2:

        groff -P-o0 -t -man -Thtml xxx.1 > xxx.html

This gave good results with the test manual page I attached, as well
as with my full manual page (other than the missing paragraph
spacing).

Unfortuantely, groff-current (pre 1.18?) as of today cannot be used.
It creates a real mess of output with lots of horizontal lines
throughout.

-Rick

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