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Re: Wanted: Converter from texinfo to HTML

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From: Peter Flynn
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 11:04
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In article <1993May24.202535.2271@Princeton.EDU> rhl@grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton the Good) writes:
>I'm looking for a converter from TeXinfo to HTML (as used by www). The only
>one that I've found is written in python, and I don't want to build the 
>whole python distribution just to do this. I was really hoping for one in
>perl (or even awk) --- has anyone done the work? It can't be hard, but
>I'm terribly busy...

Well, dammit, I was thinking of that only yesterday. Yes, yes, yes, please.
Python? Omigoddess! 

There is a www.el or maybe html.el for emacs: perhaps if someone did a little
LISPing around...

The only problem is the HTML DTD. An amended version was posted today to
SGML-L, but I still have problems with the sturcture, which seems to have
some weird concepts (eg <p> is defined EMPTY, because it's only use to
_separate_ paragraphs, not to enclose them) which take it a bit off-track,
IMHO. I wanted to get Author/Editor to use the HTML DTD so I could use
a decent editor to prepare stuff, _and_ be able to convert it to TeXinfo,
but I am still very unhappy with this DTD.

///Peter
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