From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20030204212012.14681.qmail@f.bio.cse.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Webbrowser In-Reply-To: Message from "Skip Tavakkolian" of "Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:17:37 PST." From: Scott Schwartz Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:20:12 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4e0bf0f0-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 | Check out 'art' on sources (under contrib); Also, when I looked into | this before, I came to the conclusion then that porting XCIP to Plan9 | might be the fastest way to get this functionality. The output is in | pic format, so is useful for documentation. You can find | information on xcip and its history at this URL: | | http://www.bell-labs.com/user/dwd/5620faq.html Frankly, if web browsers interpreted any one of troff macros, ditroff, or dvi (with shell escapes removed), the world would be a better place, because then we could generate nicely typeset and nicely portable documents that could be widely and reliably displayed. So my proposal is this: get someone else to teach mozilla to grok the formats listed above. The killer app is that you can then view good old unix manpages in a modern mode! Then, once millions of Linux users have been won back the the True Path, dozens of Plan 9 users can take advantage of the situation by not having to suffer html any more.