man2html [plain text]

#!/bin/sh

# Crude script to convert formatted manpages to HTML. Requires GROFF_NO_SGR.

while :
do
    case $1 in
    -t) title=$2; shift; shift;;
    -*) echo "Usage: $0 [-t title] [file(s)]" 1>&2; exit 1;;
     *) break;;
    esac
done

echo "<!doctype html public \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"
        \"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\">
<html> <head>
<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=us-ascii\">
<title> $title </title>
</head> <body> <pre>"

#ESC=`echo x | tr '[x]' '[\033]'`

sed '
	s/\([<>&]\)\1/\1/g
	s/&/\&amp;/g
	s/_</\&lt;/g
	s/<</\&lt;/g
	s/</\&lt;/g
	s/_>/\&gt;/g
	s/>>/\&gt;/g
	s/>/\&gt;/g
	s;_\([^_]\);<i>\1</i>;g
	s;.\(.\);<b>\1</b>;g

	s;</i>\( *\)<i>;\1;g
	s;</b>\( *\)<b>;\1;g

	# Skip the redundant readme/html_directory blurb. The
	# document names that follow will be hyperlinked.
	/^<b>README FILES/{
		h
		N
		N
		g
	}
' "$@"

echo '</pre> </body> </html>'