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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2010-04-27 10:26, Per Jessen wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:

> > In a WYSIWYG, modern, way? Like OpenOffice? With a working example?
> > No, there is none. I have tried a lot of them.
>
> I would have to spend some time googling, but I _know_ I have come
> across projects which had man pages written in SGML or XML - during the
> build, output was produced as man-pages, or html or pdf etc. There is
> no reason why the same could not be written in ooxml (or whatever it is
> openoffice uses) and be converted in the same way.  The formatting
> elements used in man pages are, like you say, quite simple.
>
> The more I think about this, the more I am convinced someone has already
> done it - 
> look, an openoffice document is nothing but an XML-document with some
> extra bits (you just unzip the document). An XML-document is very
> easily turned into (using an XSL stylesheet) suitably formatted input
> for producing man-pages (isn't that done with nroff ?). 

Actually, I have tried that. I found a process with OOo (I don't remember the 
details), but I didn't
succeed. I should have notes of what I found somewhere.

- -- 
Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))
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