[GRASS-dev] Manpage HTML markup consistency

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Patton, Eric wrote:
> Glynn mentioned DocBook as a possible future doc format...what about XML?
> Are there any advantages to ever using that format, or is it pretty much
> the same as using HTML?

This was the kind of thing I had in mind when originally mentioning CSS 
block-level classes. I suppose that I should read about how PDFdocs are 
created by the Makefile-- but it would be nice to have the man pages in the 
most maleable format possible. 
>
> If we ever wanted to move to XML, or at least make it easier to migrate to
> it, all html tags would have to be lowercased, as I believe XML expects it.
> I've written a small sed script to do this already, but I didn't want to
> modify all 300+ docs and do a massive svn commit if there's no point.

DocBook, custom XML, or even some kind of LaTeX hybrid (like the R manual 
system) might be useful. Moving thing between HTML and Man page format would 
be another story-- but probably doable with some kind of simple 
parser/converter.


Dylan

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