sim@philabs.philips.com (Kristian Simsarian) (01/05/89)
I have seen many systems for NeWS and X to display either the output from troff or postcript code, but is there anything good out there to put formatted documents on the screen in a suntools environment?? It is truly overwhelming how much paper we go through just to check out how it looks. There is a company called Elan that sells a souped up troff called Eroff with a previewer for $1795 per server and $1795 for each 5 workstations. That is not the route I want to go, as we may someday spend some money to get desktop publishing software. Thank you very much in advance. [[ There is something called "suntroff" that people around here seem to be happy with. It was written by Malcolm Slaney at Schlumberger Palo Alto Research (SPAR), based on code written by David Slattengren (Berkeley) and Rich Hyde (Purdue). It is freely redistributable, but I don't know where it is available. Maybe if you drop Malcolm a line at "malcolm@spar.slb.com" he might tell you. --wnl ]] -- Kristian T. Simsarian Public Health Research Institute, NYC (212) 578-0875 {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!sim -or- phri!sim@uunet.uu.net xxxsim@asparagine.phri.nyu.eduxxx (not on reliable yet)
ted@braggvax.arpa (01/13/89)
Check out tseetool on the first Sun User's Group tape. Works with CAT troff only, but then that's what Sun gives you anyway (unless 4.X finally gets ditroff). Ted Nolan ted@braggvax.arpa
mhyman@sun.com (Marco S. Hyman) (01/13/89)
In reply to a question about "...put formatted documents on the screen in a suntools environment??" our moderator says: > There is something called "suntroff" that people around here seem to be > happy with.... --wnl suntroff is available on the 1987 SUG tape. According to the README: This directory contains a Device Independent Troff previewer for a Sun workstation. It is based on a previewer originally written by David Slattengren (Berkeley) and Rich Hyde (Purdue) and was nearly all rewritten by Malcolm Slaney (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research). I'd also be interested if a troff (as opposed to ditroff) previewer is available. --marc ...... Marco S. Hyman UUCP: ...!sun!sfsun!hsfmsh!mhyman domain: sfsun!hsfmsh!mhyman@sun.com
bin@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (01/19/89)
hsfmsh!mhyman@sun.com (Marco S. Hyman):
>...suntroff is available on the 1987 SUG tape.
It may also be found in the X11R3 distribution (the user-contributed part)
as "xtroff".
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu rhesus!dubois
bin@primate.wisc.edu rhesus!bin