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Postings from August 1999
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com> writes:
> If you look at Johan Fromans's quickref, it's written in
> hand-crafted troff.
Actually#1, it's "Vromans", not "Fromans".
Actually#2, it's written in LaTeX, but there is a specially
hand-crafted troff version to please the O'Reilly production
department. The next (unified) version will be in XML, which will be
translated to LaTeX (or whatever required) using an XML::Parser based
tool.
And yes, this tool will do a lot of intelligent 'guessing'. For
example, since it is perfectly clear to me what
<opr>index str, substr [ , offset [ , replacement ] ]</opr>
should do, I can teach the tool to do the hard work instead of
having to specify (over and over and over ...)
<opr>
<name>index</name>
<arg>str</arg>
<arg>substr</arg>
<optional>
<arg>offset</arg>
<optional>
<arg>replacement</arg>
</optional>
</optional>
</opr>
Oops. I'm afraid I've made some enemies with both the POD and XML
people now...
-- Johan