./textproc/unroff, Programmable troff translator with backend for HTML

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Branch: pkgsrc-2008Q1, Version: 1.0.2nb1, Package name: unroff-1.0.2nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Unroff is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator
with a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language.

Unroff reads and parses UNIX troff documents and translates the embedded
markup into a different format. Neither the actual output format nor
any knowledge about particular troff macro sets (-man, -ms, etc.) are
hard-wired into unroff. Instead, the translation process is controlled
by a set of user-supplied procedures written in the Scheme programming
language.

Translation rules for new output formats and troff macro packages can
be added easily by providing a corresponding set of Scheme procedures
(a `back-end'). Version 1.0 of unroff includes back-ends for translating
documents using the `man' and `ms' macros into the Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML) version 2.0. Additional requests facilitate use of
arbitrary hypertext links in troff documents.

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