[MPlayer-dev-eng] manpage2html ?

[Jonas Jermann]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:07:39PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:11:13PM +0200, Jonas Jermann wrote:
> > Does someone know some other options for groff (It's hard to 
> > find manuals about it) to create a better html output?
> > At the moment I use:
> > 
> > groff [-t -e] -m man [or -mandoc] -Thtml mplayer.1 > manpage.html
> 
> IMO the problem is that the mplayer man page uses lots of fixed
> spacing and literal formatting rather than proper groff markup. It
> should be possible to make the option and suboption descriptions wrap
> and align automatically so that the 80 column thing becomes a
> non-issue, and so that the html output looks right.

Yeah, I know of course, the question is just: How to do it in a 
really easy and groff formating compatible style. I'm working on
this. Any inputs are welcome, I wrote to the groff ml too btw... :)

> Unfortunately I know nothing about making man pages, so I can't give
> advice on how to do it right, but I think it's possible and someone
> should probably look into it at some point.

I'm taking a deep look at it right now, I found some 
solutions and talked to Diego. Hopefully we'll find a good, easy 
solution....

There are many other things that could/should be changed...


Regards
    Jonas