Man Scilab
formatman
Scilab Function
formatman - translates old NROFF man files in a directory into ascii, tex, html or xml
Calling Sequence
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formatman(path [,to])
Parameters
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path
: character string, giving the path of the directory
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to
: character string with possible values "ascii", "tex", "html", "xml"
Description
This function, not yet fully checked, formats old help files (*.man) of a given
directory, written
in a subset of NROFF, to ascii, tex, html or xml.
NOTE: this function is obsolete and MUST ONLY be used to translate old
NROFF help files into new XML help files.
Known NROFF directives are .TH, .SH, .TP, .RS, .RE, .LP, .IG,
.nf, .fi, .TS, .TE, .ft, .IP
Font handling like
, , , , , ]
are ignored
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ascii
mode generates a .cat file for each .man file and a whatis file
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tex
mode generates a .tex file for each .man file and a whatis.tex file
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html
mode generates a .html file for each .man file and a index.html file
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xml
mode generates a .xml file for each .man file
See Also
help
,
man
,
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