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From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] htmlroff
Date: Thu,  5 Jan 2006 09:59:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40601050059o28fd6fd4g717eb36ececa2dd7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0601050048t34292913s197e2a5525408286@mail.gmail.com>

If you don´t like latex2html output, then it does not help.
The output is awful for hand editing, but regarding presentation,
generating all the doc in a single page is not that bad.

On 1/5/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > Wouldn´t a converter from troff to latex be easier if we are talking
> > about generating html? latex is huge, but we already have it.
>
> How does converting from troff to latex help with html?
> Latex2html produces disgusting output.
>
> Russ
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05  7:01 Russ Cox
2006-01-05  7:45 ` Rob Pike
2006-01-05  7:56   ` Russ Cox
2006-01-05  8:43     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-01-05  8:48       ` Russ Cox
2006-01-05  8:59         ` Francisco J Ballesteros [this message]
2006-01-05 10:32         ` John Murdie
2006-01-05 18:48         ` Taj Khattra

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