[TUHS] Another "craft" discussion topic - mindless tool proliferation

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Wed Sep 20 12:01:11 AEST 2017


So there are links in that that don't work, that user guide is really old,
but you should be able to get the idea.  If people bitch about the links
that don't work I'll see if I can fix them.

The skinning is in the Html file.

> Here's an example:
> 
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/UG/
> 
> is the source, you can look at those files, they are nroff -ms source,
> and then look at 
> 
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/UG/tmp
> 
> and you'll see the web version of the docs.  Which is pretty useful.
> You've got all the .NH 1 headers in the table of contents down the
> left side, and when you click one of them it shows you the .NH 2,
> .NH 3 etc headers for just that section.
> 
> And if you go to
> 
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/UG/tmp/map.html
> 
> you can get html versions of any .NH 1 section, or the entire thing as one
> page.
> 
> It's a ~1700 line perl program (perl 4ish) and it has some ability to skin
> the content.  Source in http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/UG/webroff

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