Re: [Groff] Troff to xml

2012-06-13 Thread James K. Lowden
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:57:01 +0200 Pierre-Jean wrote: > Last but not least, I'm happy to learn about pic2plot, to > convert pic to svg. Does someone know if there's something > for tbl? You may want to check the archives for a thread not long ago in the same neighborhood, in particular

Re: [Groff] Troff to xml

2012-06-13 Thread Pierre-Jean
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter/ You talked about doclifter a few weeks ago, and, sorry for that, but I thought it was not published - I don't exactly know why I had this idea... I should have say that I don't use ms nor other macro sets and need something to trans

Re: [Groff] Troff to xml

2012-06-13 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Pierre-Jean : > I'd like to share here some thoughts about the translation > of a troff file to xml. This is not, in my opinion, a very > difficult task, the problem is more that there's not one way > to do that, and so no standart way, and so a lot of partial > solutions. http://www.catb.org/~esr

[Groff] Troff to xml

2012-06-13 Thread Pierre-Jean
Dear troffers, I'd like to share here some thoughts about the translation of a troff file to xml. This is not, in my opinion, a very difficult task, the problem is more that there's not one way to do that, and so no standart way, and so a lot of partial solutions. We know one of them: 'groff -T x