doclifter

The doclifter program translates documents written in troff macros to DocBook.

Lifting documents from presentation level to semantic level is hard, and
a really good job requires human polishing.  This tool aims to do everything
that can be mechanized, and to preserve any troff-level information that might
have structural implications in XML comments.

This tool does most of the hard parts, but not all.  TBL tables
diagrams are translated into DocBook table markup and and PIC into
SVG, but EQN is not translated.

Test loads are included in the distribution.  The code has been tested
in about the most brutal possible way; it has been run against every
single man page in all sections of a full Fedora Core installation.
It lifts over 95% of these pages without requiring any hand-hacking.

There is a detailed change log in the RPM spec file.

							Eric S. Raymond
							November 2003