Schauble@MIT-Multics.ARPA (Paul Schauble) (12/17/87)
Can anyone offer any information about conversion aids to move a
document from nroff to Interleaf? It seems as though this translation
could be done mechanically. Has anyone written the necessary program?
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>Can anyone offer any information about conversion aids to move a >document from nroff to Interleaf? Your Interleaf rep should have such a filter along with many others available to import most standard formats. If you are running a current rev of Interleaf the should be no problem. * * * * * * itzzall4phun- {ihnp4,uunet}!philabs!mam philips laboratories * * * * * * ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun
md@umb.edu (Mark Dionne) (12/19/87)
>Can anyone offer any information about conversion aids to move a >document from nroff to Interleaf? Interleaf provides a facility for converting nroff/troff documents to Interleaf documents. It takes the *output* from nroff and does it's best to extract stylistic information. Check your documentation and/or call your account representative. (The "-d nroff" option to the opsfilt program was documented and QAed about one release later than the code was shipped, so you may have it even if you have an older release. I can't remember the exact version numbers involved.) There is also a set of filters to handle documents with EQN equations if you have the Interleaf math option. A filter to take arbitrary nroff/troff source and convert to Interleaf (or anything else) is difficult because n/troff is pretty close to a programming language. You have to make all the registers and conditionals and macros and ... work just like n/troff, and even duplicate the bugs that people rely on. I don't know of anyone that has done this. It would be very easy, almost trivial, I think, to write filters for the various macro packages such as ms, me or mm, or at least for large subsets. The problem is that I have never seen a site that enforces pure usage of the macro packages. At any point someone can fall into arbitrarily complex nroff codes. The above two paragraphs apply to TeX too. I wish that Knuth had added an optional layer of protection to TeX so that macro package writers could choose to disable more primitive layers of macros. -- ...!harvard!umb!ileaf!md Mark Dionne, Interleaf ...!sun!sunne!ileaf!md Ten Canal Park, Cambridge, MA 02141 (617) 577-9813 x5551 ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun