Re: ASCII documentation in /usr/share/doc
Holger Rauch wrote:
> I noticed that the gzipped .txt (ASCII) versions of all documents below
> /usr/share/doc are neatly formatted. As far as I know, most documents are
> DocBook SGML ones (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).
Rather few, really.
> How is
> the ASCII version of these documents created? I'm currently writing a
> user's guide, so this would really be useful to me.
The best method I have been able to find is converting docbook to html
with jade and then html to text with html2text. You can see an example
in debconf's source package, in the doc/ directory..
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