20 Sep
2017
20 Sep
'17
10:49 p.m.
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
|On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 06:13:40PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
|> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 06:09:27PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
|>>
|>>> On Sep 19, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
|>>>
|>>> Put it on the web and move on.
|>>
|>> My main gripe about that is that I can't read the web when the router \
|>> I'm trying to install won't work, keeping me from the needed web \
|>> documentation ...
|>>
|>> *Please* write your documentation in a way that allows you to generate \
|>> (useful, readable!) PDF documents that I can download for offline \
|>> viewing. Believe it or not, I don't haul along a 300 mile cat-5 \
|>> cable when I go sailing. I still like to write code on the boat. \
|>> So much for Go :-P
|>>
|>> And $GOD help everyone in the Caribbean trying to bootstrap their \
|>> infrastructure right now. How is your https://... documentation \
|>> going to help them out?
|>
|> Dude, you are talking to the guy who wrote webroff, a tool that takes -ms
|> markup and puts on the web. Our website was done in webroff for years and
|> you could take all the source and produce a pdf.
|
|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
That is pretty cool indeed.
--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)