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Troff2html does a tolerable job with straight troff output, but it is helped by annotations, described below. Its main use is for man2html (see Plan 9's httpd(8)), which converts pages into HTML and depends on a specially annotated set of macros, invoked by troff -manhtml.

Troff output lines beginning

x X html ...
    

which are introduced by placing \X'html ...' in the input, cause the rest of the line to be interpolated into the HTML produced. Several such lines are recognized specially by troff2html. The most important are the pair

x X html manref start cp 1
x X html manref end cp 1
    

which are used to create HTML hyperlinks around text of the form pointing to /magic/man2html/1/cp.

Troff2html is new and experimental; in time, it may improve and subsume Plan 9's ms2html(1). On the one hand, because it uses the input, ms2html can handle etc., which troff2html does not handle at all; on the other hand, ms2html understands only documents and is easily confused by complex troff constructions. Troff2html has the reverse properties: it does not handle the preprocessors but its output is reliable and (modulo helper annotations) is independent of macro package.

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