On Mon 17 Mar 2014 19:11:50 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > http://chuzzlewit.co.uk:8080/cgi-bin/WebManPDF.pl/man:/groff_mdoc > > This is amazing! Wonderful! I like it a lot. Indeed, viewing man > pages this way makes fun. > > What software is this? I've never seen before such a system. Can you > give more details? > > > Werner
Hi Werner, Thanks. All I wrote was a little preprocessor for groff which uses Keith Marshalls pdfmark calls in the appropriate places then pump it through gropdf. The pre-process is less than 500 lines of code, it'll probably take me longer than ten years to get it completely Ok! The web front end is currently a tiny cgi program which calls "man -t" which I've configured to call the preprocessor and groff -T pdf. When I've battle hardened it a bit I'll make it available. I also plan to expand the web part. I plan to parse the whatis file to produce a html index, to give the web crawlers something to bite into. Cheers Deri
