Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?

Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?

[steve.simon]

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Sorry, yes, mind on other things

-Steve

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From: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:29:13 +0100
Message-ID: <1111306366@snellwilcox.com>

steve.simon@snellwilcox.com wrote:
> 	generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' |
> 		awk 'turn data into tbl/MS macros' |
> 		tbl |
> 		ms2html > report.ps

Wouldn't that be troff instead of ms2html?

Or:

	generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' |
		awk 'turn data into simple HTML' |
		html2ms | troff > report.ps

?

(going from the 30s of Google research -- sorry for any obvious ignorance)

-Jack

Re: [9fans] [even more off topic] 'The Practice of Programming' & troff

[Jack Johnson]

 From http://troff.org/pubs.html#tpop

"This book was typeset (grap|pic|tbl|eqn|troff -mpm) in Times and Lucida
San[s] Typewriter by the authors."

Just for trivia's sake, does anyone know (hi, Rob!) if this book was
typeset on Plan 9?

There's an interview with Brian at Linux Journal:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7035

and I noticed interviewers often ask him about C vs. Pascal, but rarely
(if ever) about troff vs. TeX.

-Jack

P.S.
I spent some quality time with awk for the first time last Friday
(converting some ugly one-off bash shell scripts) and couldn't have been
more pleased with the results, so this thread is a kind of harmonic
convergence of unrelated incidents and interests for me.

Re: [9fans] [even more off topic] 'The Practice of Programming' & troff

[andrey mirtchovski]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Jack Johnson wrote:

> There's an interview with Brian at Linux Journal:
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7035
>

He talks about all the different operating systems he uses, and
mentions that at Bell-Labs it's IRIX. I fing it strange, because
I have put on the web his README for beginner Plan 9 users:

	http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/README.html

Or maybe it isn't strange  -- the README was written in 1995 after
all.

Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?

[GBA]

Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Can anyone suggest open source/freeware/GPL tools that convert HTML
> to postscript?  I'm looking for something that's a modern tbl/nroff
> equivalent for simple reporting needs, even in a Unix type environment.
> E.g.,
>
> 	generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' |
> 		awk 'turn data in simple HMTL' |
> 		magic_program_here > report.ps
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold Robbins
htmldoc.
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/

As of yet doesn't fully support HTML 4.0, but if you aren't trying to be
fancy, it shoulden't matter.

-Jeff Avila

Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?

[rog]

> 		html2ms | troff > report.ps

actually

	html2ms | troff | lp -d stdout > report.ps

is probably slightly more accurate.

Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?

[Jack Johnson]

steve.simon@snellwilcox.com wrote:
> 	generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' |
> 		awk 'turn data into tbl/MS macros' |
> 		tbl |
> 		ms2html > report.ps

Wouldn't that be troff instead of ms2html?

Or:

	generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' |
		awk 'turn data into simple HTML' |
		html2ms | troff > report.ps

?

(going from the 30s of Google research -- sorry for any obvious ignorance)

-Jack

Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?

[Jack Johnson]

Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Can anyone suggest open source/freeware/GPL tools that convert HTML
> to postscript?

As a tangent, Adobe Acrobat does a pretty decent job of HTML->PDF.
Sometimes I think it does a better layout/rendering job than some of the
browsers.

I wonder, if we had an HTML->PS utility, could we use some variation of
'page' as a Web browser (sans active content)?  Maybe listing links from
the page in a menu as if they were separate pages in the document, and
then doing another set of fetches, rerendering, etc?

-Jack

Re: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?

[steve.simon]

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How about

	generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' |
		awk 'turn data into tbl/MS macros' |
		tbl |
		ms2html > report.ps

admittedly ms2html is Plan9 specific (uses libc/bio not stdio).

-Steve

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From: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:55:49 +0100
Message-ID: <2767366193@snellwilcox.com>

Can anyone suggest open source/freeware/GPL tools that convert HTML
to postscript?  I'm looking for something that's a modern tbl/nroff
equivalent for simple reporting needs, even in a Unix type environment.
E.g.,

	generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' |
		awk 'turn data in simple HMTL' |
		magic_program_here > report.ps

Thanks,

Arnold Robbins

[9fans] [off topic] HTML to PostScript?

[Aharon Robbins]

Can anyone suggest open source/freeware/GPL tools that convert HTML
to postscript?  I'm looking for something that's a modern tbl/nroff
equivalent for simple reporting needs, even in a Unix type environment.
E.g.,

	generate_raw_data | awk 'prog to manipulate data' |
		awk 'turn data in simple HMTL' |
		magic_program_here > report.ps

Thanks,

Arnold Robbins