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Subject: Re: [9fans] troff/groff/ms2html
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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We did little to troff. The macros got a little work but nothing serious.
Other than supporting UTF-8, it's pretty much the way it was a long
long time ago, at least in terms of functionality.

Ms2html can't be hard to port, but whether it produces 'decent' html
is a judgment you'll have to make yourself.

-rob

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From: Russell Davies <russell.davies@db.com>
Subject: [9fans] troff/groff/ms2html
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:19:04 +1000

I posted to this list a while ago about a unix port of plan9's ms2html
program, someone suggested simply using groff -Thtml, but I have found
this to be mostly inadequate -- it doesn't correctly render tbl or
pic objects. I'm guessing that troff was overhauled for plan9, since
there are some new macros (.P1, .P2) however, can any one suggest a
unix method for generating decent html from troff (ms) ?

thanks,
	Russell.
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