>
> *Hmm, that must be new in CSS (i stopped at CSS2).*
Do you mean attribute selectors?
these[ones-like$="this?"] { }
They've actually enjoyed universal support for quite some time now... =)
They were included in the first revision of the CSS2 specification, IIRC.
*But that has nothing to do with roff, let alone groff, right?*
It does, but not directly. What I intend to write is a
*post-processor. *Something
which will accept the following:
$ troff -Tutf8 /path/to/manpage.1 -Z | webroff
$ troff -T pdf /some/book.me -Z | w3conv
I haven't decided on what to name the actual executable (you see two
different names above). You'll also notice I'm piping output intended for
-Tutf8 and -T pdf into a foreign postprocessor. That's the point where I
divert the stream of intermediate output commands (which I've nicknamed
"DITROFF DATA" for slang, because damn that mouthful).
Unfortunately, this means it won't support mandoc because it lacks a
similar intermedia output language (I *did* email Ingo some time ago about
a stable AST format I could work with... he probably thought I was nuts
after I said I was interested in writing my own HTML processor
*I referred to for example mdoc(7)'s .Sx command.*
Yes, that will be possible in the sense of a conventional HTML anchor. To
use a frivolous example:
<a href="#go-back-to-that-thing">Yeah John, go back to that thing</a>
Hrm, I'm pretty sure I can hear the thoughts of somebody on this list
reading this email...
*"Hah! Good luck building your magical, semantic-detection from
> pixel-drawing commands, kid!"*
Brace yourselves for the gory details of how I'm gonna have a crack at
this...
On 21 April 2018 at 09:04, Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
> John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> |Every instance of the "SHOUTED" headings can be uppercased too, even when
> |used outside their role as a heading.
> |
> |The CSS to achieve this:
> |
> |a[href="#name"],
> |a[href="#description"],
> |a[href="#authors"] {
> |
> |text-transform: uppercase;
> |}
> |
> |Will typecast any link pointing to <section id="name"> in majuscule
> "NAME".
> |It's all CSS. =)
>
> Hmm, that must be new in CSS (i stopped at CSS2).
> But that has nothing to do with roff, let alone groff, right?
> I referred to for example mdoc(7)'s .Sx command. And i think even
> Kristap's and Ingo's mandoc C parse tree will not automatically
> perform this adjustment (so that the tag for less(1) that mandoc
> can generate, somehow, is correct), but i have not verified that.
>
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com>
> To: groff <groff@gnu.org>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 08:39:36 +1000
> Subject: Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?
> Every instance of the "SHOUTED" headings can be uppercased too, even when
> used outside their role as a heading.
>
> The CSS to achieve this:
>
> a[href="#name"],
> a[href="#description"],
> a[href="#authors"] {
>
> text-transform: uppercase;
> }
>
> Will typecast any link pointing to <section id="name"> in majuscule "NAME".
> It's all CSS. =)
>
> On 21 April 2018 at 08:29, Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
>
> > Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> > |Ingo wrote:
> > |> The name of that standard section in man(7) and mdoc(7) is "EXIT
> > |> STATUS", not "Exit Status" nor "Exit status" nor "exit status".
> > |
> > |The shouting section heading makes it easier to find that heading
> rather
> > |than the same word occurring elsewhere, e.g. `ENVIRONMENT'.
> >
> > Alternatively you have active links and an index and can jump to
> > whatever section or anchor there is. For print-outs normal case
> > would be much nicer.
> >
> > |And if the .SH's parameter isn't shouting then perhaps there's a reason
> > |for it and it should be preserved, even if it just shows up the bug to
> > |fix.
> >
> > Much nicer.
> >
> > --steffen
> > |
> > |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
> > |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
> > |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
> > |(By Robert Gernhardt)
> >
> >
>
>
>
