[EMBOSS] Antwort: Manpage generator

[David.Bauer at schering.de]

Hi,

there are a kind of manpages in text and html format provided with emboss.
They are installed in
<prefix>/share/EMBOSS/doc/html/emboss/apps
and
<prefix>/share/EMBOSS/doc/programs/text

The txt files are used by the emboss application 'tfm' which displays this
documentation like man does.
The html files are for developers of web interfaces.

If you want to parse ACD files you should have a look at the "emboss
explorer" web gui.
This uses perl modules to parse acd files and create the web interface
dynamically.

HTH,
David.


emboss-bounces at lists.open-bio.org schrieb am 04/09/2006 06:28:50:

> Dear emboss developpers,
>
> I am a member of the Debian-med project, and we intend to provide Debian
> packages for EMBOSS soon. First of all, if some persons reading this
> mail would be interestd to participae to this effort, we are very open
> to collaboration, and we even have dedicated facilities for this:
>
> http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-emboss/
>
> It is part from the Debian policy that any program in the /usr/bin and
> sister directories should have a man page, and EMBOSS programs do not
> provide them, so I decided that I will develop a manpage generator.
>
> For the moment, I intend to parse the .acd files, fill templates in the
> DocBook format, and convert them using an xsl stylesheet. I welcome any
> suggestion on how to parse the .acd files for this purpose (I have no
> other plan than using brute force with perl).
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> http://charles.plessy.org
> Wako, Saitama, Japan
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