kfh@cbnews.att.com (kevin.hennessy) (07/05/90)
I am looking for any utilities that will convert existing troff document files to some form of WYSIWYG format. Would like to end up with a format to be used on a Mac (MacWrite, MS Word, of Fullwrite). A MS-DOS based editor format would also work, since I have filters to move MS-DOS document format files to Mac document format files already (MacLink Translators). My goal is to move our existing troff documents to the Mac for future generic releases. Our customer uses Macs for their internal document translation (English to Japanese) and they have requested that future versions of User Guides be delivered "online" in a Mac format so they can translate the User Guides to their native language. My guess is the conversion will not be 100%, but at this point any level of conversion (short of raw text) would be helpful.
bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Martin) (07/27/90)
In article <1990Jul5.124932.28849@cbnews.att.com> kfh@cbnews.att.com (kevin.hennessy) writes: > > I am looking for any utilities that will convert existing troff document >files to some form of WYSIWYG format. Would like to end up with a format >to be used on a Mac (MacWrite, MS Word, of Fullwrite). If you're familiar with sed, lex, or awk, you could write a script which converts the raw troff documents to rtf format, sort of a primitive "macroff" :-). I did something similar several years back when I moved my research papers and refer database over to the mac. I didn't bother converting the troff mm macros; I simply cleaned up the document format. -- Brian ==== Brian K. Martin, M.D. INTERNET: martin@medix.pegasus.com, bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu ARPA: uhccux!bmartin@nosc.MIL UUCP: {uunet,dcdwest,ucbvax}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!bmartin
paulr@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Raulerson) (07/28/90)
You can also just use troff (or enscript if you have transcript avail)
to process the sources docs into Postscript and then use any one of a
number of PD PS-viewers available.
Paul
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