From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] htmlroff From: John Murdie To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: <7359f0490601042345p5a4e1abdj1bb77f81cd87aa2f@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40601050043n24f6b8bbv29b8204cbee04e8e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:32:56 +0000 Message-Id: <1136457176.7222.15.camel@pc118> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: d25653dc-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 03:48 -0500, Russ Cox wrote: > > Wouldn=B4t a converter from troff to latex be easier if we are talking > > about generating html? latex is huge, but we already have it. >=20 > How does converting from troff to latex help with html? > Latex2html produces disgusting output. >=20 > Russ Yes, I use TTH - http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/ - instead. Though it's a long time since I used latex2html(1), I remember that it writes many HTML files by default, each containing a section or sub-section of the original document. I had to use several switches to make it work almost sensibly. The TTH source is a Lex program which the author does not make available, only the generated C. It writes just one HTML file for every LaTeX file input. John A. Murdie Department of Computer Science University of York UK