GROHTML (1)
html driver for groff
SYNOPSIS
grohtml
[
-atvdgm?
] [
-F dir
] [
-I imagetype
] [
-r resolution
] [
files \|.\|.\|.
]
DESCRIPTION
grohtml
translates the output of GNU
troff
to html.
Normally
grohtml
should be invoked by using the groff command with a
-Thtml
option.
If no files are given,
grohtml
will read the standard input.
A filename of
-
will also cause
grohtml
to read the standard input.
Html output is written to the standard output.
When
grohtml
is run by
groff
options can be passed to
grohtml
using the
groff
-P
option.
OPTIONS
-a
force
grohtml
to generate html line breaks in the same position as troff dictates.
Without this option
grohtml
generates text in paragraphs which is formatted by the html browser.
-d
turn on internal debugging.
-g
tell
grohtml
not to try and guess titles and headings.
By using this flag together with the -m and -a flag
grohtml
will treat the html browser as a printer, not as a formatter.
-m
leave margins alone.
grohtml
will not remove left margins.
-t
forbids
grohtml
from generating html tables when implementing indentation and tabular text.
grohtml
can implement .IP by tables or html indents.
However if .2C is used it can only be sensibly converted to html using a
table structure.
As a few known bugs still exist with the html table code this option is
present to supress execution of this development code.
The default in
grohtml
is that html tables are generated when appropriate.
-F dir
Search the directory
dir /dev name
for font and device description files;
name
is the name of the device, usually
html .
-I imagetype
select the type of image generated when grohtml encounters an equation,
table, or picture.
By default this is png256.
Legal image types are: gif and any of the png formats which are supported by
ghostscript gs(1).
-r resolution
select the resolution for all images.
By default this is 80 pixels per inch.
Example: -r100 indicates 100 pixels per inch.
-v
Print the version number.
-?
USAGE
There are styles called
R ,
I ,
B ,
and
BI
mounted at font positions 1 to 4.
It is advisable to invoke groff with the -mhtml macro set, which turns off
headers, footers, and hyphenation; additionally, it will right justify text.
DEPENDENCIES
grohtml
is dependent upon grops and gs.
If
grohtml
has been configured to generate gif files then it is further dependent upon,
ppmtogif, and ppmquant.
However if it has been configured to generate png files (the default) then
it is dependent upon gs having a png output device.
Images are generated whenever a table, picture, equation or line is
encountered.
BUGS
This is still very alpha.
At least three major bugs remain:
Firstly,
grohtml
sometimes miscalculates the end of an html table resulting in text which
appears twice.
Secondly equation numbers are not handled correctly.
Thirdly equation macros and pic macros can confuse
grohtml .
SEE ALSO
- afmtodit (1) -
- groff (1) -
- troff (1) -
- psbb (1) -
- groff_out (5) -
- groff_font (5) -
- groff_char (7) -
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