elk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Edwin L. King) (11/15/88)
Does anyone have or know where I can find a version of ?roff (nroff, eroff,
troff, et. al) for the PC? Executable would be fine, as would C source
(I can port it if necessary).
THanks!
--
Ed King He may act a little erratic. Regeneration
scrambles the brain cells a bit.
elk@cbnews -- Cho-Gidmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) (11/16/88)
In article <2133@cbnews.ATT.COM> elk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Edwin L. King) writes: >Does anyone have or know where I can find a version of ?roff (nroff, eroff, >troff, et. al) for the PC? Executable would be fine, as would C source Some years ago, someone posted the source to ROFF (the predecessor of nroff & troff). If I recall correctly, it was Col. Sicherman, then of Georgia Tech (anyone remember if I got this right?) I ported it to the PC, and added font control and a simple printcap of sorts. ROFF is almost a subset of nroff. The major limitations are: - No number registers, strings, diversions, or traps. - Macros don't take arguments. - No font control (my PCROFF has fixed that). Obviously, it can't handle the MM or MS macros with these limitations, but it's a nice, simple, fairly fast formatter. I find it useful, as do my kids. I can Email it (or post, if there's enough demand). The uuencoded arc is just about 62K, so I may have to split it. Respond by Email if you're interested; I'll decide whether to respond or post in a week or two. +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Tutelman | | Physical - AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ | | Logical - ...att!mtunb!dmt | | Audible - (201) 576 2442 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) (11/16/88)
From article <2133@cbnews.ATT.COM>, by elk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Edwin L. King): > Does anyone have or know where I can find a version of ?roff (nroff, eroff, > troff, et. al) for the PC? NROFF/PC is $99 from Elan Computer Group, 415-322-2450. Includes TBL, NEQN, CHECKMM, MM, and MAN Macros also. -- Ken Greer Elan Computer Group, Inc. {ames,hplabs,uunet}!elan!kg 415-322-2450
keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (11/22/88)
In article <378@elan.UUCP> kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes: >From article <2133@cbnews.ATT.COM>, by elk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Edwin L. King): >> Does anyone have or know where I can find a version of ?roff (nroff, eroff, >> troff, et. al) for the PC? > >NROFF/PC is $99 from Elan Computer Group, 415-322-2450. Includes TBL, >NEQN, CHECKMM, MM, and MAN Macros also. ...and since you have access to and adequate descriptions of the printer-driver files you can adapt it to lots of printers. But it doesn't do Postscript. Unfortunately. (And no MS macros, either, but they're a thing of the past. Except here at TekLabs, where we managed to standardize on them somehow...) (But now everybody's using a PC-based wordprocessor, so who cares, anyway?!) keith (ramble, grumble, where's my coffee?) ericson
pso@tut.fi (Petri Solanti) (11/23/88)
In article <4277@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>, keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) writes: > In article <378@elan.UUCP> kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes: > >From article <2133@cbnews.ATT.COM>, by elk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Edwin L. King): > >> Does anyone have or know where I can find a version of ?roff (nroff, eroff, > >> troff, et. al) for the PC? > > > >NROFF/PC is $99 from Elan Computer Group, 415-322-2450. Includes TBL, > >NEQN, CHECKMM, MM, and MAN Macros also. I've thought this is an uncommercial discussion arena, but I don't mind. It's nice to know email-addresses of some people who are working in certain companies and who bother to answer their mail. Thanks Ken! > ...and since you have access to and adequate descriptions of the > printer-driver files you can adapt it to lots of printers. > > But it doesn't do Postscript. Unfortunately. > > (And no MS macros, either, but they're a thing of the past. Except > here at TekLabs, where we managed to standardize on them somehow...) > (But now everybody's using a PC-based wordprocessor, so who cares, > anyway?!) Elan Computer group supports also EROFF, which is a superset of ditroff and it produces postscript ( important for us because it is our standard :-). We use mostly MS macros and we have had no problems using them with EROFF EXCEPT in pc environment. Yes, we have ported MS macros into pc ( they are no more under licence ) but it was not very easy, while manuals said completely nothing about file structures, paths etc of external macro packages. Otherwice we have found Eroff very useful with its graphic features. But KEN ..... When do we get a proper support for scandinavian characters ???? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Petri Solanti Tampere University of Technology UUCP: pso@tut.UUCP Signal Processing Laboratory Internet: pso@tut.fi PO box 527 Tel: 358-(9)31-162 577 SF-33101 Tampere, Finland