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SGMLFMT(1)             DragonFly General Commands Manual            SGMLFMT(1)


NAME

     sgmlfmt - Formats SGML files tagged according to the linuxdoc DTD.


SYNOPSIS

     sgmlfmt -f format [-links] [-i name ...] [-e encoding] [-hdr file]
             [-ftr file] file


DESCRIPTION

     The sgmlfmt command reads SGML files tagged according to the linuxdoc
     DTD, validates them using the sgmls(1) parser and then converts them to
     the specified output format.  The input file must include the following
     document type declaration before any uncommented text:

           <!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN">

     Options for sgmlfmt include the following:

     -f format
             Determines the output format which can be one of the following:

             ascii   Generates a single output file with the extension .ascii
                     suitable for viewing on an ASCII terminal.

             html    Generates a set of linked HTML files suitable for use
                     with an HTML browser.  A top level file, file.html,
                     contains the title, author, date, abstract and brief
                     table of contents for the document.  A file file_toc.html
                     contains a complete table of contents.  A series of files
                     named file1.html, file2.html ... filen.html contain the
                     actual text of the document.

             koi8-r  Generates a single output file with the extension .koi8-r
                     suitable for viewing on an terminal supporting the KOI8-R
                     character encoding.

             latex   Generates a single output file with the extension .latex
                     suitable for processing with LaTeX.

             latin1  Generates a single output file with the extension .latin1
                     suitable for viewing on an terminal supporting the
                     ISO8859-1 character encoding.

             ps      Generates a single output file with the extension .ps
                     suitable for printing or display on a PostScript
                     compatible device.

             roff    Generates a single output file with the extension .roff
                     suitable processing with groff(1).  This is actually an
                     intermediate conversion used by the -f ascii, -f latin1,
                     -f koi8-r, and -f ps format options.

     -e encoding
             When used with the -f html output format, this specifies the
             document encoding recorded in the <HEAD> element of the generated
             HTML files.  The default is iso-8859-1.

     -i name
             Pretend that
                   <!ENTITY % name INCLUDE >
             occurs at the start of the document type declaration subset in
             the document entity.  Since repeated definitions of an entity are
             ignored, this definition will take precedence over any other
             definitions of this entity in the document type declaration.
             Multiple -i options are allowed.  If the declaration replaces the
             reserved name INCLUDE then the new reserved name will be the
             replacement text of the entity.  Typically the document type
             declaration will contain
                   <!ENTITY % name IGNORE >
             and will use %name; in the status keyword specification of a
             marked section declaration.  In this case the effect of the
             option will be to cause the marked section not to be ignored.

     -links  When used with the -f html option, this option generates a shell
             script named file.ln.  For each <label id="foo"> in the document
             source, file.ln generates a symbolic link foo.html pointing to
             the numbered .html file containing the reference.  Since the
             number of the file containing a particular section can change
             when a document is modified, this provides a convenient hook by
             which separate documents can provide links into another document
             without the links becoming invalid when the target document is
             modified.  When creating a symbolic link, any occurrence of a
             slash (/) in label is replaced with percent (%), while any
             occurrence of a space is replaced with an underscore (_).

     -hdr file

     -ftr file
             When used with the -f html option, the contents of the specified
             files will be inserted into the generated HTML files at the top (
             -hdr) and bottom ( -ftr) of the page.

     If the input file name ends with .sgml, the extension may be omitted on
     the command line.  In all cases, the output files are created in the
     current working directory.


FILES

     /usr/local/share/sgml/transpec - directory containing translation
     specification files for instant(1).


SEE ALSO

     groff(1), instant(1), sgmls(1), transpec(5)


AUTHORS

     The sgmlfmt command was written by John Fieber <jfieber@FreeBSD.org>.
     The linuxdoc DTD was written by Matt Welsh <mdw@cs.cornell.edu> and based
     on the Qwertz DTD written by Tom Gordon <thomas.gordon@gmd.de>.

                               January 17, 1997

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