keane@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Chris Keane) (01/17/90)
This is probably a really silly question. I'm trying to convert
various troff documents to atk format. The troff stuff uses the
'ms' macro package and so I've been using the command
% rofftext -t -ms Doccy > atkDoccy
but all this does it produce an atk skeleton...that is:
\begindata{text, 630704}
\textdsversion{12}
\template{roff}
\majorheading{
}
\enddata{text,630704}
But the Doccy is fairly substantial! (and known formatted correctly)
We are running Sun 3/50s SunOS4.0.3. X11R3 (Our Andrew Version is the one
that was released on the X11R3 tape with no patches)
hmmm...can anyone help me?
regards...
Chris.
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+-------------------------------------------------+guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (02/03/90)
>There is now a toez command which converts Scribe or troff/nroff to ez.
Yes, but it appears to just be another application wrapper around the
"rofftext" object, just as "rofftext" itself is. However, while
toez -ms <your input file>
worked OK (<your input file> being the slice of the input file you
provided), "rofftext -t -ms <your input file>" didn't. Furthermore,
neither "rofftext" *nor* "toez" did anything with the following:
-------------------------------Cut Here----------------------------------------
.LP
The Xmu Library is a collection of miscellaneous (some might say random)
utility functions that have been useful in building various applications
and widgets. This library is required by the Athena Widgets.
-------------------------------Cut Here----------------------------------------
where "rofftext" was run with "-ms" ("-t" or not "-t" didn't matter),
and "toez" was run with "-ms" as well ("-troff" or not "-troff" didn't
matter).
"nroff -ms <that file>" did work, however. The "-ms" macro package here
is the standard SunOS 4.0.3 one; differences between the various "-ms"
packages may account for these problems.guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (02/03/90)
>The "-ms" macro package here is the standard SunOS 4.0.3 one; >differences between the various "-ms" packages may account for these >problems. In fact, it probably *does* account for it, in combination with a "rofftext" bug. The document .de XX .de YY \\.. .. .XX Hello, world when run with "rofftext" with no extra arguments (i.e., no "-ms") produces an empty document, with "Hello, world" nowhere in it. I think "rofftext" can't cope with macros that define macros, as "XX" does there, and as do several macros in the SunOS 4.0.3 "-ms" macro package (and perhaps in other variants of "-ms" as well).
wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Fred Hansen) (02/05/90)
Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 2-Feb-90 Re: rofftext...please be ge.. Guy Harris@uunet.uu.net (1150) > neither "rofftext" *nor* "toez" did anything with the following: > -------------------------------Cut Here---------------------------------------- > .LP > The Xmu Library is a collection of miscellaneous (some might say random) > utility functions that have been useful in building various applications > and widgets. This library is required by the Athena Widgets. > -------------------------------Cut Here---------------------------------------- I created a file with the above text and ran it with toez -m -troff test > test.d The result was a mostly empty file containing none of the words in the given text. In other words, it doesn't work with the RT version of -ms either. I am sending this note to info-andrew-bugs so the bug can be recorded. FredH