yodlconverters (1)

Name

yodl2... - miscellaneous Yodl converters

Description

This manual page describes the various shell scripts that convert documents in the Yodl language to other formats. The basic converters are:

o yodl2html(1) : converts to HTML, writes a file with the extension: .html.
o yodl2man(1) : converts to nroff ‘man’ format, writes .man. Can be: further processed with e.g. nroff -Tascii -man file.man.
o yodl2latex(1) : converts to LaTeX output, writes .latex. Can be: further processed with, e.g., latex file.latex.
o yodl2txt(1) : converts to plain ASCII, writes .txt. This is a: very rudimentary converter, a last-resort.

Options

The options are identical to those of the yodl(1) program.

Additionally, the following options are available:

o: --no-warnings: By default the convertors call yodl(1) using the -w flag. The option --no-warnings suppresses this flag.
o: --intermediate=<filename>: By default, files used for the communication between yodl and yodlpost are removed following the conversion. The --intermediate=<filename> option may be provided to retain these files, called <filename> and <filename>.idx.

Each yodl2format converter requires a file format.yo in Yodl’s include path (e.g., /usr/share/yodl). This file is auto-loaded before FILE (see the synopsys) is loaded, to make the conversion to format possible.

The output is written to one or more files having the extension .for_mat.