Re: [Groff] Generating HTML

[Bill Ward]

Gaius,

Thanks for the quick reply.  W.r.t. your question below, I like making "the
www macro set initialise post-grohtml with the correct set of tags for
headings, titles, preformatted text etc."  Sounds great to me.

Best regards,

Bill Ward

> From: Gaius Mulley <address@hidden>
> Date: 26 Apr 2006 16:45:01 +0100
> To: Bill Ward <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Groff] Generating HTML
> 
> Bill Ward <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am using groff -Thtml to generate web pages.  I really like the ability to
>> create inline versions of pic diagrams and equations provided by grohtml,
>> but would like to be able to turn off the generation of HTML tags so that I
>> can generate my own using a version of the ms macro package I've written (so
>> as to use my own style sheet).
>> 
>> Any ideas on how to do this?  I've scrutinized the various man pages, tried
>> several weasel ways, and I just can't seem to make it happen.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Bill Ward
>> 
>> P.S. Just a suggestion, but the ability to customize grohtml so as to allow
>> the user to select the tags to emit for the various ms constructs would be a
>> handy feature (e.g., use <h4 class="SH_1"> instead of <h4>), as well as
>> specifying a user-defined prolog for the top matter in the page.  This would
>> allow the user to provide his own style sheet and control the page look
>> better.  Just a thought.
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> at present this is not possible using grohtml.  It is a nice idea
> though, and in principle easy to implement.  It would also fit nicely
> with css (as you say).  I guess one method to implement this would be
> to make the www macro set initialise post-grohtml with the correct
> set of tags for headings, titles, preformatted text etc.
> Then make post-grohtml emit these appropriately. Alternatively
> post-grohtml could look up the various definitions from another input
> file (.grohtmlrc).  I guess I favour the first, any thoughts, anyone?
> 
> regards,
> Gaius
>