> > Got a “this debug view expired” response.
Ugh. Try https://codepen.io/alhadis/full/WNwWrOP instead; I was trying to omit that stupid toolbar at the top… > I don’t suppose that’s a straight conversion… Nope, not at all. It's a hand-written portrayal of what I consider to be a "perfect" rendition of a man page in HTML. On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 12:29, Larry Kollar <kol...@windstream.net> wrote: > > 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 > > >
