RoffToWeb:
A Toolkit for Creating High Quality Publications and Web Pages

ABSTRACT

RoffToWeb is a toolkit that makes it possible for an author to create both high quality PostScript and a hierarchy of HTML files automatically from a single set of troff input files.

The main objective in roffToWebs design was to utilize the best features of each medium while making the final docu- ments as similar as possible. Other goals for this toolkit were that:

• It would be easy to use.
• It would be easy to setup for new projects.
• The user would only need to know how to create input documents for the formatter, i.e., would not need to know how to write HTML.
• A user would be able to define macros.
• It would be extensible to new preprocessors.
• Each web page that was created would have the same look and feel, and that that look and feel could be customized. Furthermore, each page would be marked with the author's copyright.
• The toolkit would add local search capabilities to the web site automatically.
• It would enable a hierarchical structure to be added to the web pages.

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