Re: Manual pages

Wittenberger wrote:
>
> No chance. SGML for example describes the structure of the doc, as the
> Name of the programm, the synopsis, the references. But it is no
> formatting system at all. A separete system has to be used to
> describe, how the parts are to be formatted (like name is in tt font,
> synopsis is separated by blank line and has a heading SYNOPSIS)

Is there a good guide to SGML/HTML, etc on the net anywhere? It sounds like
maybe I've misunderstood quite how it fits in?

> >Anyway if there are no overriding objections to the locations I suggested
> >I'll start writing a few server man pages.
>
> Many Thanks for that.

They're in roff format for now :-)

> Dave Hudson wrote:

Hmm I think that was Rob actually :-)

> > I have one, it's called RosettaMan. It translates nroff to html, sgml,
> >ascii, or roff. It's also *really* tiny. You can get it from:
> >ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:/ucb/people/phelps/tcl/rman.tar.Z.

                Regards,
                Dave
Received on Wed May 11 02:03:22 1994