Yes, that's more or less what we do/did. It was in a makefile somewhere.
Cheers
Martyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Gruene [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 15 November 2013 15:00
> To: Winn, Martyn (STFC,DL,SC)
> Cc: ccp4bb
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 man-pages
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> Dear Martyn,
>
> thanks for the hint about lynx. I could create the 'man'-pages with #>
> cd $CHTML #> mkdir ../doc #> for i in *.html; do lynx -dump $i >
> ../doc/${i%html}doc; done #> bash makeman.sh
>
> That's good enough for me.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> On 11/15/2013 03:46 PM, Martyn Winn wrote:
> > Many, many years ago, the man pages used to be nroff-formatted .1
> > files. We converted these to html files, and used lynx to
> > automatically generate ASCII .doc files which could be used as man
> > pages. AFAIK this is still the case.
> >
> > I mention this in case anyone wants to get nostalgic about
> > nroff/groff/troff ...
> >
> > Martyn
> >
> >> -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board
> >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Phil Evans Sent: 15
> >> November 2013 14:37 To: ccp4bb Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] ccp4 man-pages
> >>
> >> AFAICS the .doc files look as if they were auto-generated from the
> >> .html files in 6.3.0. Certainly the only documentation I have
> written
> >> for Pointless and Aimless is in html
> >>
> >> Phil
> >>
> >> On 15 Nov 2013, at 14:33, "Edward A. Berry" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> (assuming of course the .doc files aren't also missing).
> >>>
> >>> CDOC: Undefined variable. [berry@sbserv ~]$ ls $CCP4/doc ls:
> >>> cannot access /sw/lnx/ccp4-6.4.0/doc: No such file or directory
> >>>
> >>> I second the request for continued man pages and .doc files
> >>>
> >>> Ian Tickle wrote:
> >>>> I agree completely with Tim: I use 'man' (or 'info' for gfortran &
> >>>> the like) all the time - but then I'm a die-hard
> >>>> command-liner/shell-scripter who never
> >> uses
> >>>> ccp4i! I haven't got around to installing 6.4 yet but if & when I
> >> do
> >>>> & I find the man pages missing as Tim says I'll probably copy over
> >>>> the ones from 6.3 - even though they're maybe now a bit out of
> >>>> date,
> >> it's better than no man pages! ... or maybe better would be
> >> something like:
> >>>>
> >>>> alias manc 'less $CDOC/\!^.doc'
> >>>>
> >>>> (assuming of course the .doc files aren't also missing).
> >>>>
> >>>> ... or this looks promising:
> >>>> ftp://jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov/current_docs/sctk-1.2/doc/html2man.pl
> >>
> >>>>
> (haven't tried it though).
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>>
> >>>> -- Ian
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 15 November 2013 09:48, Tim Gruene <[log in to unmask]
> >>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am sorry about this 'double' post, but I had no reply on
> >>> ccp4bb-dev
> > within about three weeks.
> >
> > I wonder if I was the only one using the ccp4 man-pages. They
> >>> were
> > available until ccp4-6.3 but seem to be absent in the latest
> >>> version.
> >
> > I find them utterly handy, much faster than locating the
> > html-documentation through a web-browser and they probably do not
> >>> take
> > up much space.
> >
> > So I hope to get some votes for redistributing the man-pages
> >>> through
> > the ccp4bb.
> >
> > Best, Tim
> >
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
>
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