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txt2man converts text to man page
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Maybe a little more Fortran-friendly? #31

Open urbanjost opened 4 years ago

urbanjost commented 4 years ago

Great Utility. I had to tweek it a little to work with Fortran documenation where in the SYNTAX section a Fortran procedure usually looks like function NAME( or subroutine NAME( instead of just NAME(

It would be nice if your original was more Fortran-friendly instead of primarily easy to use for C-like syntax so I could just use it directly.

See the results so far at Fortran Intrinsics

Have your ever thought of adding an option to also generate HTML? You are already doing the parsing and I find that I very often am converting my manpages to HTML using manserver(1) or groff(1) which usually ends up in rather poor-quality HTML. The *roff directives you are generating have 1-1 equivalents in HTML2 so it seems like a natural and useful extension to your utility.

Thanks again for the great tool!

mvertes commented 4 years ago

I agree that adding support to Fortran would be nice and is certainly achievable. I will look at it.

I've done a variant of txt2man (unpublished) to generate HTML some time ago, so yes, this is something I could consider.

urbanjost commented 4 years ago

Great. I appreciate you taking it under consideration, that is all I can ask Again, thanks for the great utility.

On 07/21/2020 6:15 AM Marc Vertes <notifications@github.com> wrote:

I agree that adding support to Fortran would be nice and is certainly achievable. I will look at it.

I've done a variant of txt2man (unpublished) to generate HTML some time ago, so yes, this is something I could consider.

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