"Edward L. Sutter" <els@sage.sage.att.

com>
Perhaps there is already a better way to do this, but since I couldn'd find
one, I'd like to make a suggestion that has helped me quite a bit for getting
the proper hypertext links. Keep in mind that this is under the context of
me converting "man" directories with their typical sub-directories of
man1, man2, etc... to an equivalently structured "html" directory with
the same sub-directory heirarchy.
I added an option to rman that allows it to search for the files over
a specified set of directories. This allows (for example) manpages under
man1 that reference something under man3 to be properly linked.
rman.c v2.4 ...
...
/* ELS: added to support a smarter external reference generator. */
char *SearchDirs=0;
int HrefSearch();
...
/* ELS: added the -S option: */
while ((c=getopt(argc,argv,"Kh?f:l:r:bckmTpvn:t:s:yS:"))!=-1)
switch (c) {
case 'k': fHeadfoot=1; break;
case 'b': fSubsections=1; break;
case 'c': fChangeleft=1; break;
case 'S': SearchDirs=optarg; break;

...

void
HTML(enum command cmd) {
...

case BEGINMANREF:
for (p=hitxt; *p && *p!='('; p++) /* empty */;
*p++='\0'; p0=p;
for (; *p && *p!=')'; p++) /* empty */;
*p='\0';
/* ELS: added a call to HrefSearch() if the -S option is set.. */
if (SearchDirs)
HrefSearch(hitxt,p0);
else {
printf("<A HREF=\"");
printf(manRef, hitxt, p0);
printf("\">");
}
break;

...
/* ELS...
HrefSearch():
Active only with command line option -S...
Called when rman -fHTML has determined that it is going to add a
hypertext link. The user tells rman where to search for the hypertext
links (local machine search only) and if HrefSearch() finds the file
SRCHDIR/manname.section
where
SRCHDIR is one of the colon-delimited paths specified with
the -S option;
manname is the text that rman found preceding a "manname(##)"
detection;
section is the string within the parens of the manname spec;

then it will use that path to build the HREF line. If not found,
then <A> is all that is inserted.
This is generally only helpful when you are simply attempting to
turn a man directory into an html directory.
Note that if the first char of SearchDirs is a colon, then if
HrefSearch does not find the reference, it defaults to what rman
used to do (use manRef, -r option); otherwise, it will not add
a hypertext link at all.
*/
HrefSearch(manname,section)
char *manname, *section;
{
char *dir, *colon, tmp;
int DefaultToManRef;
FILE *fp;
static char path[256];
tmp = 0;
again:
if (SearchDirs[0] == ':') {
dir = &SearchDirs[1];
DefaultToManRef = 1;
}
else {
dir = SearchDirs;
DefaultToManRef = 0;
}
/* Make 2 passes on all search directories... */
/* First pass is with the path dir/manname.section */
/* Second pass is with the path dir/manname.section[0] */
/* This allows the spec manname(3x) to be found as manname.3 */
/* just in cast manname.3x doesn't exist. */
/* Note that the second pass is only necessary if the section */
/* string is more than one character in length. */
while(1) {
colon = strchr(dir,':');
if (colon) *colon = 0;
sprintf(path,"%s/%s.%s.html",dir,manname,section);
if ((fp = fopen(path,"rw")) != NULL) {
printf("<A HREF=\"");
 printf("%s",path);
printf("\">");
fclose(fp);
if (colon) *colon = ':';
fprintf(stderr,"HREF @ %s\n",path);
return(1);
}
if (colon) {
*colon = ':';
dir = colon+1;
}
else
break;
}
if (section[1]) {
tmp = section[1];
section[1] = 0;
dir = SearchDirs;
goto again;
}
if (tmp)
section[1] = tmp;
if (DefaultToManRef) {
printf("<A HREF=\"");
printf(manRef, manname, section);
printf("\">");
}
else
printf("<A>");
return(1);
}
/* End ELS additions. */