# HG changeset patch # User diego # Date 1162402425 0 # Node ID 2b0bf38913610199f6333ece9a2e96731f9bffb0 # Parent a45bc176a16d6bb350d9100cf6fa34117e81f194 cosmetics: Reformat section. diff -r a45bc176a16d -r 2b0bf3891361 DOCS/tech/manpage.txt --- a/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt Wed Nov 01 17:31:11 2006 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/tech/manpage.txt Wed Nov 01 17:33:45 2006 +0000 @@ -53,29 +53,30 @@ values to produce a better groff HTML output (Due to a bug of groff2html?). A setting of 4 should look readable. Here's an overview again: - - groff: groff is the "official" tool to convert man pages. - To get good results you need a recent version (1.18.2). - groff -mman -Thtml mplayer.1 > mplayer.1.html - groff -mman -Tlatin1 -rLL=78n mplayer.1 | col -bx > mplayer.1.txt - The groff man page lists other output formats to use with -T. + - groff: + groff is the "official" tool to convert man pages. To get good results you + need a recent version (1.18.2). + groff -mman -Thtml mplayer.1 > mplayer.1.html + groff -mman -Tlatin1 -rLL=78n mplayer.1 | col -bx > mplayer.1.txt + The groff man page lists other output formats to use with -T. - Unfortunately groff is not able to handle UTF-8 input as of - version 1.19.2. groff-utf8 is a wrapper that works around these - deficiencies: - http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html + Unfortunately groff is not able to handle UTF-8 input as of version 1.19.2. + groff-utf8 is a wrapper that works around these deficiencies: + http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html - - man2html: You can view it through a CGI script: - http://localhost/cgi-bin/man2html?mplayer - The output is unusable as the script doesn't seem to support - the macro definitions. Maybe manually changing all leads to - acceptable results. + - man2html: + You can view it through a CGI script: + http://localhost/cgi-bin/man2html?mplayer + The output is unusable as the script doesn't seem to support the macro + definitions. Maybe manually changing all leads to acceptable results. - - rman: rman -f html mplayer.1 > man_page.rman.html - The output is ugly as rman doesn't understand many of the - macros used. + - rman: + rman -f html mplayer.1 > man_page.rman.html + The output is ugly as rman doesn't understand many of the macros used. - - troffcvt: troff2html -man mplayer.1 > man_page.tcvt.html - The (good) output is similar to groff but simplified... + - troffcvt: + troff2html -man mplayer.1 > man_page.tcvt.html + The (good) output is similar to groff but simplified...