{"id":1749,"date":"2010-06-04T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T11:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2024-06-04T10:07:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T08:07:05","slug":"roffit-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/roffit-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"roffit lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many moons ago I created a little tool I named roffit<\/a>. It is just a tiny perl script that converts a man page written in the nroff format to good-looking HTML. I should perhaps also add that I didn’t find any decent alternatives then so I wrote up my own version. I’ve been using it since in projects such as curl<\/a>, c-ares<\/a> and libssh2<\/a> to produce web versions of the docs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has just done its job and I haven’t had any needs to fiddle with it. The project page lists it as last modified in 2004, even though I actually moved it to a sourceforge<\/a> CVS repo back in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just a few days ago, I got emailed and was notified that Debian<\/a> has it included as a package in the distribution<\/a> and someone was annoyed on some particular flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This resulted in a bunch of bugs getting submitted to the Debian bug tracker<\/a>, I started up the brand new roffit-devel mailing list<\/a> to easier host roffit discussions and I switched over the CVS repo to a git one on github<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you like seeing man pages turned into web pages, consider joining up and help us improve this thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many moons ago I created a little tool I named roffit. It is just a tiny perl script that converts a man page written in the nroff format to good-looking HTML. I should perhaps also add that I didn’t find any decent alternatives then so I wrote up my own version. I’ve been using it … Continue reading roffit lives!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,45],"tags":[213,33,141,150,257,424,159,279,426],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floss","category-web","tag-c-ares","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-cvs","tag-debian","tag-git","tag-libssh2","tag-man-pages","tag-roffit","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24913,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/24913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}