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diff --git a/src/devices/grohtml-old/TODO b/src/devices/grohtml-old/TODO deleted file mode 100755 index 4924bd1c..00000000 --- a/src/devices/grohtml-old/TODO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,294 +0,0 @@ - ------------------------------------------------------------------- - T O D O L I S T ------------------------------------------------------------------- -finish working out the max and min x, y, extents for splines. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -check and test thoroughly all the character descriptions in devhtml -(originally taken from devX100) ------------------------------------------------------------------- -improve tmac.arkup ------------------------------------------------------------------- -also improve documentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -fix the bugs which are exposed by Eric Raymonds pic guide, -"Making Pictures With GNU PIC". It appears that grohtml becomes confused -about which sections of the document are text and which sections need -to be rendered as an image. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -it would be nice to modularise the source. A natural division might be -to extract the table handling code from html.cc into table.cc. -The table.cc could be expanded to recognise output from tbl and try -and generate html tables with lines/rules/boxes. The code as it stands -should cope with very simple plain text tables. But of course at present -it does not get a chance to do this because the output of gtbl is -bracketed by \fCgraphic-start\fR and \fCgraphic-end\fR. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -introduce anti aliasing for the images as mentioned by Werner. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -improve generation of html. Perhaps by using a stack of current -html commands and using a kind of peephole optimizer on the stack? -Certainly the html should be buffered and optimized. ------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -Informal to do bug list and done list -===================================== - -This very informal and I've included some comments. Mainly consists -of a emailed bugs and wish lists. All very useful and welcome. - ------------------------------------------------------------------- -Dean writes: (provinsd@enf403-2.ensu.ucalgary.ca) - -I noticed also that the TOC appears immediately after the title, splitting -it from the author and abstract. Any chance it can be moved down? - -gaius> this should be straight forward. (Not done yet though) ------------------------------------------------------------------- - -.) The command `\(->', translates to the `registered' sign (or rather - the character `0xAE') instead of a right arrow. - ---nearly fixed-- 4/01/2000 - -gaius> if we know the standard html character encoding for farrow which -gaius> will work on *all* browsers then this can be fixed inside devhtml/TR -gaius> etc. Otherwise I guess we could translate this character into -> -gaius> in tmac.html ? - ------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Werner writes: - -Nevertheless, still some bugs in it. As usual, I'm refering to man.1 -of the mandb package; my command to create man.html was - - groff -U -t -man -Thtml -P-r -P200 man.1 > man.html - -.) The `-w , --where, --location' node at the beginning of man.html - shouldn't be there at all. - -> .) Some paragraphs still contain hyphenated words (e.g. first -> paragraph of the `DESCRIPTION' section). - -Oops! Please ignore this. I forgot to include `-mhtml' :-) - -.) Is it possible to have anti-aliased PNG images? - -.) The item `man --help' in the `EXAMPLES' section doesn't start a new - paragraph. - -.) In the description of the -r switch (in the `OPTIONS' section), - there is a new paragraph in the middle of a sentence. - -.) What about centering the images? Or does it depend on the table - itself? - -gaius> yes, grohtml places images at their relative position on the page. - -.) In the `OPTIONS' section, `-c, --catman' and `-d, --debug' are - glued together which shouldn't happen. ---fixed-- - -.) Sometimes, an empty line is missing between items, e.g. between the - description of the -e and the -f options. - -.) After the `-w, --where, --location' line, there is a superfluous - empty line. - -.) The indentation in the `FILES' section is inconsistent. The same - is true for `-V, --version' a few lines above. - -.) The formatting of the paragraph after the first table is completely - wrong. It appears that the first few words are set in two columns; - additionally, the indentation is incorrect. - -.) Similarly, the description of `-l' in the OPTIONS section is - idented incorrectly. Wrong indentations happen still quite - frequently. - -.) In the description of the `-D' option, there is a blank line in the - middle of a paragraph. - - - Werner - ------------------------------------------------------------------- -Werner writes: - -Gaius, - -checking a weird man page written by myself in German (using German -hyphenation patterns also :-), I found some more bugs: - -.) Look at the following: - -[\c -...\^\c -] -[\c -.BI -P \ \%Plattform-ID\^\c -] - - This translates to - -[<font size=3><B>-E</B> <font size=3><I>Kodierungs-ID</I> <font size=3>] - ^ - (groff breaks the line after the final `]'.) - - There are two errors in it: First of all, the `\ ' command should - be translated to ` '. Secondly, a blank has crept in (marked - with `^'. Apparently, this is related to whether it is the last - item of a line or not. - ---fixed-- 4 01 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- - -from Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk> - -One thought that came immediately to mind after our first trials. -If grohtml depends on grops, should there not be an easy interface to -allow PostScript code to be interpreted into the output? For -instance, we generate our letterhead, including a logo, on the fly in -groff. The logo is pure PostScript. We use PostScript for colour -manipulation, and recently for generating a lot of graphics for -printing. - -gaius> should be interesting - if we can generate PS then GS it -gaius> we should be in business - ------------------------------------------------------------------- - D O N E L I S T ------------------------------------------------------------------- -the logical place and name for a file describing tmac.arkup is -groff_markup.man placed into the `tmac' subdirectory, and your html.ms -looks like being this kind of file. - -So I won't check it in currently -- may I ask you to convert this file -to a man page? - --- fixed -- - -Another related problem: I can imagine that a lot of people start to -write man pages with HTML output in mind also. Nevertheless, it -should be still possible to display such pages correctly with a plain -text man pager. As a consequence, such man pages should contain at -the beginning something like - - .do mso tmac.arkup - -What do you think? - - Werner - --- fixed -- -gaius> fixed by using troffrc-end I believe --------------------------------------------------------------------- -Gaius, - -in troffrc, it appears to me that tmac.html is loaded if the output -device is HTML. So why must I load it again (using -mhtml) to -suppress hyphenation for HTML output? Can you provide a fix for this? - - Werner - -gaius> fixed as above --------------------------------------------------------------------- - -from (daeschler@shuttle.de) Rainer Daeschler - -I recognized s problem limiting the usage for -"none-english aliens". The generation of PNG of GIF, -skips all special characters like - - äöü ÄÖÜ ß - -French, Spanish, and Scandinavian national letters, too. - ---fixed-- 14/01/2000 - -An option which forces tables into HTML-code instead of building -an image would be most valuable. Of course it would not preserve -the original layout in many cases, but ease modifications of -the HTML-output to the users demand afterwards. - ---fixed-- 14/01/2000 - -gaius> use the new -T option to grohtml (-P-T to groff) - ------------------------------------------------------------------ -from Werner - - but `pre-defined' appears as `pre­ line' (note the space - character after the soft hyphen). Something in the code makes - problems here... - - (IIRC, I've sent you this man.1 file a few weeks ago). - -gaius> Werner fixed this by adding .cflags 0 -\(hy\(em\(en to tmac.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------ -from Werner and Eddie -> > > .LP -> > > .URL Germany "ftp://groff.ffii.org/pub/groff/" -> > > | -> > > .URL USA "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/" -> > -> > Problem: the first "|" of each line is missing a leading white space -> > space. -> > -> > How to ensure the spaces get put there? -> -> This is a feature grohtml (unfortunately -- AFAIK, Gaius hasn't found -> a good workaround yet). HTML stuff gets written as specials which -> don't consume space for troff, causing some miscalculation if placed -> at the beginning of a paragraph. A workaround is to write -> -> .LP -> \& -> .URL ... -> | -> .URL ... - -gaius> fixed by adding \& to HTML as per Werner's suggestion - - -Werner writes: - -PNGs created by grohtml have apparently a white background -- isn't it -possible to make the background transparent optionally? - -Another suggestion: What do you think about calling the PNG files -<groff_input_file>-<index>.png or something like this? I can't see an -advantage in the current naming scheme except for debugging purposes -where it may be necessary to stay with the old files. - ---fixed-- 04 01 2000 - -gaius> however I've had to retain a default grohtml-pid-index.png for all -gaius> stdin as we don't know the filename.. sadly looks like everything.. -gaius> Nearly done by including a new tcommand 'F filename' - ---fixed-- 26 01 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- - -.) The following code produces ugly results -- is it possible to make - the HTML result similar to the ascii output? - -.in +4m -.ta 3iC -.I "Plattform Plattform-ID (pid)" -\&.sp -.ta 3iR -Apple Unicode 0 -.br -Macintosh 1 -.br -ISO 2 -.br -Microsoft 3 -.PP - ---fixed-- 14/01/2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- |