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doclifter 1.0.0 released - converts man pages to DocBook
- From: Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:14:52 +0900
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: doclifter 1.0.0 released - converts man pages to DocBook
Eric S. Raymond recently released v1.0.0 of doclifter, a Python 2.2
utility that converts man pages and other troff/nroff/groff documents to
DocBook XML and SGML. I wrote up a short news item about it:
http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1749
Here's a summary of the main features:
* converts man, mandoc, ms, me, and TkMan page sources
* parses command/function synopses and converts them into DocBook
markup (using Cmdsynopsis, Arg, Replaceable etc. elements)
* recognizes 'stereotyped' patterns of markup and content (such as the
use of italics in a FILES section to mark filenames) and 'lifts'
them into DocBook markup
* recognizes things such as URLs, email addresses, man page
references, and C program listings, and lifts them into DocBook
* maintains a record of semantic 'hints' it picks up from
analyzing source docs (especially from command/function synopses),
and provides a means to edit, add to, and save that record