On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:59:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > My own personal favourite for archival format would be to stick with POD
> > until and unless we can cons up something even Plainer than POD. I've
> > got this dream that someday we'll be able to take something --- perhaps
> > based on Damian's Text::Autoformat --- and use it to parse purely plain
> > ASCII text, formatted nicely for screen display, with no markup at all,
> > and garnish it with markup allowing it to be automatically translated
> > into nice sexy HTML, or SGML according to various other DTDs, or XML, or
> > POD, or the man or mandoc troff macros, or LaTeX, or whatever.
>
> I've fiddled with this before and can do text to HTML; the rest is just a
> question of picking different backends and shouldn't be *too* hard. All
> the heuristics for parsing text are inherently fragile, but if you follow
> a standard text formatting style, it works reasonably well.
For more ideas there is the PolyglotMan (nee RosettaMan),
http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/
> --
> Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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