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Re: DocBook to man pages XSL
- From: Martijn van Beers <martijn at eekeek dot org>
- To: Denis Bradford <denisb at rational dot com>
- Cc: DocBook Apps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:43:19 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook to man pages XSL
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:26:46AM -0500, Bradford, Denis wrote:
> We gave db2man a try. The biggest problem we found was that the nroff output
> does not appear to format tables - each cell is rendered on a separate line.
That could be right. I haven't encountered tables in the manpages that
I needed to convert yet, so I didn't put any thought into it. Patches
welcome.
> If db2man is still under development,
As you can see from the subject line in the bug report, it's a "first
attempt" thing. Of course it still needs work.
Martijn