Check out the latex2html package (you probably need to find the right name
for your distro).
I have not tried it so I don't know if it suits your requirments, but it
might.
Will also give you the advantage that you can print the output using latex
if you whish later.
You can also try to check out groff (and troff).
sgml should also probably be the most apropriate, although you will
probably have to spend some time to learn it (although you probably need
to do so for every option you choose)
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> I am thinking about writing an online book called "Learning how to program
> in perl" which will teach those who don't know programming how to program
> in perl.
>
> While the final book will be in HTML, I'd like to have the following
> requirements for the format I'll use to write it:
>
> 1. The source for every chapter should be in a separate file. (to fasten
> the time it takes to render it onto HTML for checking).
>
> 2. There should be logical styles like "<NOTE> ... </NOTE>" "<CODE> ...
> </CODE>". HTML, for example, is not good enough for being the source for
> this document because if I would like to change the format of all the
> notes, I'll have to change the HTML code in every place there is one.
>
> 3. Numbering of Chapters, Sections and sub-sections; notes, assignments,
> exercises, etc. Also, the ability to give an ID to a closure and then
> reference it from the outside based on its ID.
>
> 4. The ability to place text in several files from one source file. For
> instance if I have the following meta-code:
> <exercise>
> <text>
> Write a program that prints all the numbers between 1 and 100, that do are
> not equally divided by 3.
> </text>
> <solution>
> <pre>
> for($a=1;$a<=100;$a++)
> {
> if ($a % 3 != 0)
> {
> print $a, "\n";
> }
> }
> </pre>
> </solution>
> </exercise>
>
> Then I'd like what between the "<text> ... </text>" tags to appear in the
> text of the chapter, while the solution in a separate solutions file.
> (with a link to it from the text).
>
>
> The closest thing I now of for this kind of thing is SGML, but I don't
> know if it is flexible enough for my needs. Do you know if there's a DTD
> available for such purposes. I don't know how to write SGML DTD's on my
> own.
>
> Another option I can think about is writing my own generator in perl while
> using XML::Parser. The problem is that it is quite a lot of coding.
>
> Do you know if there's any solution that fits the needs I described above?
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
>
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