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diff --git a/misc/doclifter/README b/misc/doclifter/README index be6e5ab4be68e..acbba9eb69384 100644 --- a/misc/doclifter/README +++ b/misc/doclifter/README @@ -1,12 +1,19 @@ -doclifter lifts documents in nroff markups to XML-DocBook. +doclifter (convert nroff markup to XML-DocBook) This package ships two Python scripts: -_doclifter translates documents written in troff macros like man pages to - DocBook, that can then be converted to other formats or translated. -_manlifter is a mass-conversion script and test harness for doclifter. - It can find and convert _all_ man pages in your system with one simple - command, but in a few cases. + +- doclifter translates documents written in troff macros (like man + pages) to DocBook, that can then be converted to other formats or + translated. + +- manlifter is a mass-conversion script and test harness for doclifter. + It can find and convert _all_ man pages in your system with one simple + command. See the man pages, also in HTML format in /usr/doc/docfilter*/html docfilter's author is Eric S. Raymond. + +Optional runtime dependency: plotutils. This is required for +converting PIC diagrams to SVG. Not many man pages actually require +this. |