"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-01-03 07:28 -0500:
> Sorry, I am in fact abusing <blockquote> to translate .RS/.RE. And > yes, I was aware this was an abuse, but I don't know of any better way > to translate it. Can you offer one? Nope. I think the case of .RS/.RE exposes the basic problem of there being some genuine limitations on what a tool like doclifter can do -- that is, doing what Norm Walsh calls "dragging unstructued markup uphill". I assume that when most man-page authors are using .RS/.RE, they're doing it not just for presentational effect but instead to set apart some block of content that has a particular semantic meaning -- a program listing, a example, or whatever. The only way for doclifter to generate proper markup for .RS/.RE instances like that would be be for it to figure out what semantic meaning the author intended for that indented block to have. Is it a program listing, an example, or what? It sound like you already have doclifter doing some AI stuff to make that determination in some cases. But I'm sure there are many cases where it can't figure out what the author's intention was. I don't think generating <blockquote> for those cases is the right thing to do. I guess the only thing I can suggest is that you generate a, say, remap="RS-RE" attribute/value on whatever block element you output (<para> or whatever) for the block that the RS/RE instance contains. And maybe emit a warning: "RS/RE found but can't determine intened semantics" (or whatever). --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://www.w3.org/People/Smith/ _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
