Hi Branden, On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 01:53:51PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > At 2024-03-18T12:38:30+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > I'm considering using grohtml(1) in the Linux man-pages, to replace > > man2html(1), which crashes on tzfile(5) --which has correct man(7)--. > > Well, all right. Demand may drive improvement to grohtml more reliably > than abandonment and neglect have. > > > Currently, I'm running groff(1) as its separate constituents: > > > > $ make build-ps -Wman2/membarrier.2 > > PRECONV .tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.tbl > > TBL .tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.eqn > > EQN .tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.ps.troff > > TROFF .tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.ps.set > > GROPS .tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.ps > > > > which runs > > > > $ make build-ps -Wman2/membarrier.2 --debug=print \ > > | grep -Pv '^[[:upper:]]+\t'; > > preconv man2/membarrier.2 >.tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.tbl > > tbl <.tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.tbl >.tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.eqn > > ! (eqn -Tps <.tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.eqn 2>&1 > > >.tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.ps.troff) \ > > | grep ^ >&2 > > ! (troff -man -Tps -wbreak <.tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.ps.troff 2>&1 > > >.tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.ps.set) \ > > | grep ^ >&2 > > grops <.tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.ps.set > > >.tmp/man/man2/membarrier.2.ps > > > > What pipeline do you recommend for HTML, using a similar pattern? > > So far, the only thing that seems to work is > > > > $ preconv man2/membarrier.2 \ > > | tbl \ > > | troff -man -Thtml -wbreak man3/_Generic.3 \
Whoops! I passed two different file names at different stages. I
obviously wanted to say this:
$ preconv man3/_Generic.3 \
| tbl \
| troff -man -Thtml -wbreak \
| post-grohtml >g.html;
> > | post-grohtml >g.html;
> >
> > Although from pre-grohtml(1), maybe I shouldn't be running tbl(1)
> > myself?
>
> grohtml uniquely runs its own output-driver-specific preprocessor, but
> more significantly, that preprocessor _runs troff_. The main reason
> "groff -Thtml" is relatively slow is because it runs troff as part of
> running troff, scraping out chunks of PostScript and converting them to
> images.
>
> I'm not _certain_ that what you're trying to do can't be expected to
> work. I had suspected that tbl(1) had hooks in it for pre-grohtml(1)
> support (by testing the `ps4html` register, the usual way this is done),
> but it doesn't.
>
> In fact, spending a few minutes looking at it, I'm not seeing anything
> that seems like it should foreclose what you're trying to do.
>
> Can you share an exhibit of a pipeline that fails and describe _how_ it
> fails?
Sure. Let's add eqn(1) to that pipeline.
$ preconv man3/_Generic.3 \
| tbl \
| eqn -Thtml \
| troff -man -Thtml -wbreak \
| post-grohtml >g_eqn.html;
<standard input>: warning: eqn should have been given a '-Tps'
option(consider invoking 'groff -Thtml -e')
Hmmm, let's do what that warning says: use -Tps.
$ preconv man3/_Generic.3 \
| tbl \
| eqn -Tps \
| troff -man -Thtml -wbreak \
| post-grohtml >g_eqnps.html;
This "works", but it results in a worse HTML file.
$ diff -u1 g.html g_eqnps.html
--- g.html 2024-03-22 20:04:24.693780375 +0100
+++ g_eqnps.html 2024-03-22 20:05:26.418201458 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
<!-- Creator : groff version 1.23.0.902-1fce7-dirty -->
-<!-- CreationDate: Fri Mar 22 20:04:24 2024 -->
+<!-- CreationDate: Fri Mar 22 20:05:26 2024 -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
@@ -37,3 +37,3 @@
-<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em">_Generic −
+<p style="margin-left:1%; margin-top: 1em">_Generic −
type-generic selection</p>
@@ -46,3 +46,3 @@
-<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top:
1em"><b>_Generic(</b><i>expression</i><b>,
+<p style="margin-left:1%; margin-top:
1em"><b>_Generic(</b><i>expression</i><b>,
type1:</b> e1<b>,</b> ... /*<b>, default:</b> e
@@ -56,3 +56,3 @@
-<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em"><b>_Generic</b>()
+<p style="margin-left:1%; margin-top: 1em"><b>_Generic</b>()
evaluates the path of code under the type selector that is
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@
-<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em"><i>expression</i>
+<p style="margin-left:1%; margin-top: 1em"><i>expression</i>
is not evaluated.</p>
-<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em">This is
+<p style="margin-left:1%; margin-top: 1em">This is
especially useful for writing type-generic macros, that will
@@ -76,3 +76,3 @@
-<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em">C11.</p>
+<p style="margin-left:1%; margin-top: 1em">C11.</p>
@@ -83,3 +83,3 @@
-<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em">C11.</p>
+<p style="margin-left:1%; margin-top: 1em">C11.</p>
@@ -90,3 +90,3 @@
-<p style="margin-left:6%; margin-top: 1em">The following
+<p style="margin-left:1%; margin-top: 1em">The following
program demonstrates how to write a replacement for the
@@ -96,3 +96,3 @@
-<p style="margin-left:15%; margin-top: 1em">#include
+<p style="margin-left:1%; margin-top: 1em">#include
<stdint.h> <br>
It reduces the base paragraph inset (did I use the right term? :) to
almost nothing.
I have a few more cases, but let's keep it short for now.
Cheers,
Alex
>
> Regards,
> Branden
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