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From: borbor@divsun.unige.ch (Boris Borcic)
Subject: Re: Tk's documentation "strategy" - what to do with Tcl/Tk's man pages
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 20:32:18 GMT
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In article <9601161821.AA15964@pluto>, Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com wrote:

> I want to convert Tcl/Tk's man pages into perl/Tk documentation.
> As you may be aware I have a script which converts them to HTML,
> but currently does not change SYNOPSIS and examples etc. to perl syntax.
> 
> I am about to embark on hand-/script- edits to change syntax,

Just a thought... Given that Tk is ported to so many free languages
(Perl, Python, Scheme, Prolog, Oz... what not) it might be
worthwhile to contemplate a generic Tk man page translator
tool (assuming that the task is amenable to algorithmic treatment
in each target language's case).

Boris Borcic
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