[MPlayer-dev-eng] manpage2html ?

Sat Aug 31 13:30:35 CEST 2002

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Jonas Jermann wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:19:08AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > Imho it's a good idea to put the manpage online (and searchable) too,
> > on mphq homepage.
> 
> Yes, good idea IMHO :)
> 
> > I remember seeing very nice, good-looking, fancy htmls generated from
> > manpages. Do anyone know the program able to do such concersion?
> > I've tried groff -T html mplayer.1 > mplayer.html but it's plaintext with
> > <html> </html> and some <br> inbetween, nothing more :(
> 
> groff -mandoc -Thtml mplayer.1 > manpage.html should produce 

Better (imho, see Description & General Notes sections per ex.), quicker and
smaller result : PolyglotMan http://polyglotman.sf.net/

$ rman -f HTML mplayer.1 > mplayer.1.rman.html
$ groff -mandoc -Thtml mplayer.1 > mplayer.1.groff.html
mplayer.1:17: warning: can't break line
mplayer.1:20: warning: can't break line
mplayer.1:26: warning: can't break line
mplayer.1:1158: warning: can't break line
$ \ls -l mplayer.1.*.html
-rw-r--r--    1 ducamp   ducamp     128937 Aug 31 13:26 mplayer.1.groff.html
-rw-r--r--    1 ducamp   ducamp      70811 Aug 31 13:26 mplayer.1.rman.html

I use the version in the xfree86 package on my slackware 8.0.0

Denis.