The html post processor of groff can directly create html, which is
expected to be of higher quality than the html generated by man2html. A
brief look at the "official" web site of man2html (as mentioned in the
description of the Ubuntu-14.04 package)
http://users.actrix.gen.nz/michael/vhman2html.html
shows why.
help2man -h --detailed-help --include dss.1.inc -N ./$< > $@
%.1.html: %.1
- man2html $< > $@
+ groff -m man -Thtml -P -l -P -r $< | sed -e '1,/^<body>/d; /^<\/body>/,$$d' > $@
clean:
rm -f *.o dss dss.1 dss.1.html Makefile.deps *.png *~ cmdline.c cmdline.h index.html
sed -e '1,/@NEWS@/d' -e '/@INSTALL@/,$$d' index.html.in >> $@
markdown INSTALL >> $@
sed -e '1,/@INSTALL@/d' -e '/@MAN_PAGE@/,$$d' index.html.in >> $@
- sed -e '1,/Return to Main Contents/d' -e '/SEE ALSO/,$$d' dss.1.html >> $@
+ cat dss.1.html >> $@
sed -e '1,/@MAN_PAGE@/d' index.html.in >> $@