URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60052>
Summary: tbl: output HTML
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Sun 14 Feb 2021 05:57:32 AM UTC
Category: Preprocessor tbl
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: New feature
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
per Branden Robinson,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-01/msg00072.html:
"It would be really nice if tbl(1) could output HTML itself. That would
render groff_hdbtl(7) unnecessary and enable us to kill off the rather
horrible hack that the groff HTML output driver uses for tables, which is to
render them to PostScript, convert that to an image, and then inline the
image. This is horrible because the table contents become not-text and stop
being searchable page content."
Subsequent posts in the thread have some brainstorming on this.
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