Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] ScrollServer

[David M. <da...@lu...>]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:36:26AM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, David Merrill wrote:
> > When will you add man pages?
> >
> > When will you add info pages?
> >
> > Do you have, or wish to have, a script that searches for man/info
> > pages and adds them to the database? If so, how should it work?
> 
> I'm still unsure of how we want to deal with man and info pages.
> ScrollKeeper doesn't have a whole lot to add here, since I doubt anybody
> will want to write up OMF files for every man and info page out there.
> I am guessing we will want to use some sort of a script which looks at
> certain paths and extracts the info naturally embedded in these formats.
> While this will be much more limitted than what we can do with
> DocBook/OMF, I think it will still be a nice feature.  This is another
> really good project for any hacker who is interested.

Hehe. See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/doclifter/

It converts man pages to docbook sgml or xml. :-)

One step in the right direction!

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