Article 129831 of comp.os.vms: Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!crl.dec.com!crl.dec.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!news1.digital.com!pa.dec.com!decuac.dec.com!haven.umd.edu!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu!JONESD From: JONESD@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: HELP : BOOKREADER documents - HTML format Date: 21 Sep 1995 06:36:18 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 49 Message-ID: <43r152$jle@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <43p2rf$80k@hawk.ee.port.ac.uk> <43psf9$56c@shts.seed.net.tw> <43q4hb$stq@news.iadfw.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu In message <43q4hb$stq@news.iadfw.net>, Chris Scheers <asi@airmail.net> writes: >leslie@dmccorp.com (Jerry Leslie) wrote: >>Matt Pound (mjp) wrote: >>: I know this is a complete shot-in-the-dark but has anyone ever come across >>: any software to convert Bookreader formated files to HTML ? >> >>: I've tried printing the bookreader files to a text file via decw$bookreader >>: but it messes up the layout and sticks extra spaces and weird meta-charaters >>: in it. A fellow in Sweden, Stellan Lagerstrom, is developing a bookreader to HTML gateway in PASCAL, see URL "http://www.e.kth.se/elektro/gw-demo.html". I've got another gateway under development written in DEC C, avaliable at URL "http://kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu/~jonesd/bookreader/". My effort attempts to isolate the low-level interpretation of the bookreader file into generic (reusable) routines. The conversion process is difficult because bookreader files are layout oriented and you have to use inference based upon the text positioning to generate HTML constructs that simulate the effect. >> >>DEC must have a way; check out this URL: >> >> http://www.openvms.digital.com/openvms/doc/index.html >> OpenVMS Sample HTML Documentation Sets >> >>--Jerry, My understanding was that their conversion was only semi-automated, they manually fixed up the HTML. >> Gerald (Jerry) R. Leslie jleslie@dmccorp.com gleslie@isvsrv.enet.dec.com >> Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation (my opinions are my own) > >Actually, the title page for the HTML documents credits VAX DOCUMENT 2.1 with >generating the manuals. Is DOCUMENT able to emit HTML? If HTML is a >specialized SGML, can DOCUMENT emit the appropriate SGML? I don't think it can yet. David L. Jones | Phone: (614) 292-6929 Ohio State Unviversity | Internet: 2070 Neil Ave. Rm. 122 | jonesd@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 | vman+@osu.edu Disclaimer: Dogs can't tell it's not bacon.