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In article <3mpj9f$d1h@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.Perl.com> writes:

   It would be nice if all GNU docs were in a form that allowed one to
   generate more than mere texinfo format.  Perl's doc set can generate 
   HTML, troff, or latex output.

Technically, the docs are written in texinfo format and formatted to
PostScript, info, or html formats using a suitable converter.  The
texinfo package (with the help of TeX) produces the first two
natively.  A very nice texinfo-to-html converter (written in perl :)
performs the latter conversion.

Please see the url 'http://wwwcn.cern.ch/dci/texi2html' for info about
the converter and 'http://www.ns.utk.edu/gnu/gnu.html' to see several
manuals that have been converted using this script (emacs, elisp, gcc,
texinfo, binutils, gawk, bison, flex, ed, bash, octave, screen, oleo,
gdb, smalltalk, gnats, autoconf, libg++).  Not all of these documents
have been formatted with the latest version, but all of them are quite
nice.  It is well-maintained and easy to use.

The documentation format in Perl 5 is functional but lacks the power
to create cross-references and such.  I am *not* criticizing the pod
format, though, as Larry Wall clearly states his reasons for using it
in the Perl distribution.

sjr
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