Re: adjustment of text blocks in tables (was: long nroff tables)

[Oliver Corff]

Hi,

there seems to be at least one effort, 20 years ago, to produce true
HTML output. I located "troffcvt: troff-to-XXX Conversion Software" by
Paul DuBois. If I understand correctly, this was/is available in Ubuntu
distributions.

Here is the link: http://www.snake.net/software/troffcvt/

Haven't tried it yet, so am not in a position to make any judgment.

Oliver.


On 21/01/2021 20:14, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:46:24 +1100
> "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It would be really nice if tbl(1) could output HTML itself.
> Hmm, from 10,000 feet that doesn't look terribly hard.  Certainly tbl
> input provides all the requisite information needed for an HTML table.
> mandoc claims to do it already.  Is there any possibility of using
> their work?
>
> One difficulty is dealing with troff requests in the middle of a
> table.  But they're not hard to recognize (in terms of parsing) and in
> practice I would guess not very many different requests are used.
>
> --jkl