ascii takes a command line argument, recognizes in it any of the synonyms for an ASCII character and prints all the others. Synonyms include decimal, octal and hex numerical values, ASCII mnemonics, ISO code points and official names, HTML/SGML style entities, and slang names ranging from common to obscure. As a side effect, ascii serves as a handy base converter for values in the range 0-255.
cstrings is a lightweight internationalization tool for C code. It is useful for those who find gettext too bulky and intrusive. It extracts strings from a program, and turns them into #defines in a prepended code section. It has good features for building up your message base incrementally.
doclifter is a tool that transcodes {n,t,g}roff documentation to DocBook XML markup. It parses man, mandoc, ms, me, or TkMan page sources, does structural analysis, and recognizes common troff-markup cliches. The result is usable without further hand-hacking about 95% of the time.
Re: Unique and powerful addition to DocBook toolchain > The only significant problem I've run > into with the > 1.0.0 version is in the implementation > it uses for dealing > w...