roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (02/16/91)
What's the best way to import a troff document into MS Word (4.0) on the Macintosh? What I generally do is run it through "nroff -Tlpr", filter out the random escape sequences, ftp the resulting ascii file to the Mac and do Open... to read it in, but this is less than perfect. The biggest pain is that every line turns into a paragraph (I guess I could minimize that by doing .ll 1000, or something like that) and that I loose all the \fI...\fP and \fB...\fP formatting. I'm willing to deal with the fancy tbl and eqn stuff myself, but it would be really nice if a tool existed to convert the majority of the formatting to something Word understood. Does it? -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"