HTML::FormatNroff 0.11

HTML::FormatNroff is a Perl module that can format HTML as nroff man page.

SYNOPSIS

require HTML::FormatNroff;
$html = parse_htmlfile("test.html");
$format_nroff = new HTML::FormatNroff(name => trial,
project => MyProject);
print $formatter->format($html);

The HTML::FormatNroff is a formatter that outputs nroff source for the nroff text processor, using man macros, and tbl commands for table processing.

The result of using the formatter must be processed as follows, when directing output to the screen (assume output is in the file "text.nroff"):

tbl -TX text.nroff | nroff -man | col

If the output is to be printed, on an laser printer for example, a command similar to the following must be used:

tbl -TX text.nroff | nroff -man -Tlj | lpr

Meta tags may be placed in the HTML so that portions of the HTML will be ignored and not processed. Content between the tags

< META NAME="nroff-control" CONTENT="ignore_start" >
< META NAME="nroff-control" CONTENT="ignore_end" >

will be ignored. In the BODY META is not supported, but DIV may be used as follows:

< DIV TYPE="NROFF_IGNORE" >
< /DIV >

In both the META and DIV uses, case is ignored.