John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ironically, modern HTML isn't too dissimilar to nroff(1) output. True. Upon seeing HTML for the first time (around 1986 if IIRC) I was struck by the similarities between it and the -mm macros. > … instead of trying to preserve fonts, colours, margins and columns when > generating an HTML version of a Roff file, forget about such details in > favour of a separate (hand-written) stylesheet. It doesn't take much CSS to > establish the look-and-feel of the equivalent PDF output: Here's how I'd > render mandoc(1)'s manual page in HTML (without actually using mandoc… > sorry Ingo ;-)) > > > - Document content > > <https://github.com/Alhadis/Stylesheets/blob/efd0e965f0d45839ba0505a7db6dcb7ce17b616e/complete/manpage/example.html> I don’t suppose that’s a straight conversion… if it is, you’ve pretty much implemented what James was talking about. > - Stylesheet > > <https://github.com/Alhadis/Stylesheets/blob/efd0e965f0d45839ba0505a7db6dcb7ce17b616e/complete/manpage/manpage.css> > > Here's how it all looks <https://cdpn.io/alhadis/debug/WNwWrOP/bYAdyXEXeXGk>. Got a “this debug view expired” response. One of the nice things about running a static website out of S3, you don’t get that kind of garbage. :-P — Larry
