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| author |   B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-01-10 17:57:58 -0500 |
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| committer |   Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2022-01-17 09:03:26 +0700 |
| commit | c4bdbf642167229044bd9f8211a302e296a89513 (patch) | |
| tree | b04cf0cd9842f4754f3704369f9d5823d603de80 /misc/doclifter/README | |
| parent | d6b71568477b6bc866348fba5ed030d313282e91 (diff) | |
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misc/doclifter: Updated for version 2.20, new maintainer.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/misc/doclifter/README b/misc/doclifter/README index be6e5ab4be..acbba9eb69 100644 --- a/misc/doclifter/README +++ b/misc/doclifter/README @@ -1,12 +1,19 @@ -doclifter lifts documents in nroff markups to XML-DocBook. +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, but in a few cases. + +- 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. |