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diff --git a/textproc/unroff/pkg/DESCR b/textproc/unroff/pkg/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0c73433930f --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/unroff/pkg/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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. |