GOATHUNTER@WKUVX1.BITNET ("Hunter Goatley, Western Ky. University") (02/11/91)
Thomas Heller writes: >I tried for some time to convert input files for t/nroff, the UNIX text >formatter programs, to TeX or LaTeX. For I'm fairly new to TeX, this did not >succseed very well. Does anyone know of conversion tools to do this, the >inverse of texi2roff? > The DECUS TeX distribution contains a program called TR2TEX, which does a pretty good job converting troff to TeX. If you're interested, contact me and I'll arrange to send you a copy (it's written in C---for VMS Bitnet sites running Jnet, I can send the .EXE in VMSDUMP format). >On the other hand I always wondered if it would be possible to write a TeX >macro library to allow TeX to 'emulate' troff? > I was thinking about this just this past weekend! It should be possible, but it would (obviously) take knowledge of both. If anybody has the time and the interest.... 8-) >Any help, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > >Thomas Heller >U of Muenster, Germany ><PPH93@DMSWWU1A.BITNET> Hope this helps. Hunter =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hunter Goatley, VAX Systems Programmer E-mail: GOATHUNTER@WKUVX1.bitnet ACRS, Western Kentucky University Voice: 502-745-5251 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-