doclifter (convert nroff markup to XML-DocBook)
This package ships two Python scripts:
- doclifter translates documents written in troff macros (like man
pages) to DocBook, that can then be converted to other formats or
translated.
- manlifter is a mass-conversion script and test harness for doclifter.
It can find and convert _all_ man pages in your system with one simple
command.
See the man pages, also in HTML format in /usr/doc/docfilter*/html
docfilter's author is Eric S. Raymond.
Optional runtime dependency: plotutils. This is required for
converting PIC diagrams to SVG. Not many man pages actually require
this.
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