Re: About OpenJade and Debian

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Adam, to be sure I undertand, In fact, What is missing now in OpenJade is
> having a good ascii output. can you be a bit more precise on how SGMLspm is
> doing the job better?

Right now any HTML -> Ascii rendering is done by a third-party tool,
such as lynx.  For instance, I can't really control how links are
rendered in ASCII without hacking the lynx rendering engine, which I
am loathe to do.

> what are the missing features?

If you had a good NROFF backend, you could produce man pages and also
ASCII versions (let groff or whatever worry about line wrapping,
etc.).  This would be better than trying to add a backend just for
ASCII, IMHO.

I guess an alternative would be some other way to go from HTML ->
ASCII which allows more control, such as:

  * how are inter-document (offsite) links rendered?

  * how are intra-document links rendered?

  * how is spacing done, i.e., surrounding sections such as <screen>
    in docbook (lynx kinda smooshes stuff together vertically)

Anyhow, just wishful thinking...

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