selig@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Paul D. Selig) (09/09/89)
Does anyone know if a public-domain troff to TeX conversion program for Unix has ever appeared in comp.sources or alt.sources? If anyone can provide me with a reference to such a program, I would appreciate it! A similar program which I am also looking for is a program which will take a [nt]roff input and convert it to PostScript output. Again, I would like something which is in the public domain. Any hints? Thanks in advance for your E-mail reply!!! | | Paul Selig, Jr. Systems Administrator | --|- Computer Science Department, Anderson Center 133 | | | | The University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469 --|- | BITNET: selig@dayton.bitnet ---- UUCP: selig@cps.udayton.edu or ...!uunet!osu-cis!udcps3!selig
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (09/09/89)
As quoted from <345@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu> by selig@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Paul D. Selig): +--------------- | Does anyone know if a public-domain troff to TeX conversion program | for Unix has ever appeared in comp.sources or alt.sources? If anyone | can provide me with a reference to such a program, I would appreciate it! +--------------- One such is part of the Unix TeX distribution, and I think it was posted to comp.sources.unix (or even mod.sources?) at one time. Unfortunately, I need to translate a -mm document which makes heasvy use of tables and lists, and tr2tex only does -ms and -me and isn't very good at translating tables.... +--------------- | A similar program which I am also looking for is a program which will | take a [nt]roff input and convert it to PostScript output. Again, I would | like something which is in the public domain. Any hints? +--------------- I hate to say this... but it's called "troff". You need a postprocessor, of course. For old troff there is "thack" in the c.s.misc archives. For ditroff there are various translators in both the .misc and .unix archives. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu "Why do trans-atlantic transfers take so long?" "Electrons don't swim very fast." -john@minster.york.ac.uk and whh@PacBell.COM