[comp.lang.perl] nroff in Perl?

roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (12/11/90)

I've gotten hold of the man pages to PL41, but they are in nroff format.
Unfortunately, out of three versions of ROFF-like programs I have for my
PC, none will format the pages.

Of course, this leads to the question... has someone done nroff in Perl?
(at least enough to format the man pages, so I can quit asking RTFM
questions ;-)

Thanks in advance for your tips and advice!
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (12/11/90)

In article <gJsZT1w163w@cybrspc> roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>Of course, this leads to the question... has someone done nroff in Perl?

Henry Spencer did, although he doesn't know it. :-)  You could
theoretically run Henry's awk code for nroff through a2p if you 
wanted to.

--tom
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