[comp.text] need translators from word processors to troff

yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) (11/30/89)

Does anyone have a translator from Word Perfect files to troff?
Of course, you would use troff macros, and of course, the
translation would probably need a lot of tweaking.

Anyone have one?
Anyone have a translator from any other
word processor in widespread mac and/or PC use
to troff?  Or TeX or LaTeX?

Thanks.

 --dave

rob@NRC.COM (Rob Pawsner) (12/01/89)

On sumex-aim.stanford.edu, under /info-mac/unix, these abstracts appear:

mw2troff.txt
Subject: MacWrite to troff input converter.

This is a program to convert MacWrite files to troff input files.  It
is rather limited, but I am unlikely to work on it further, so perhaps
someone else can go farther with it.  I've found this version useful.


mw4x2troff.shar
This is a new version of w2t (a.k.a. write2troff) that will handle
MacWrite 3.x/4.x format files.  There have been a few bug fixes but no
significant changes other than the new MacWrite support.