gall@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Norm Gall) (09/29/90)
I desperately need a utility that will convert nroff/troff documents to something like Rich Text Format (RTF). I work on a Macintosh with MS Word, but a converter to any major wp package would be great. Please e-mail me at gall@nexus.yorku.ca Thanks, Norm Gall -- "It is not the task of philosophy to affirm or deny the existence of things, but rather to clarify what assertions or denials of existence signify, if anything." -- PMS Hacker
norman@d.cs.okstate.edu (Norman Graham) (09/30/90)
From article <15644@yunexus.YorkU.CA>, by gall@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Norm Gall): > > I desperately need a utility that will convert nroff/troff documents > to something like Rich Text Format (RTF). I work on a Macintosh with > MS Word, but a converter to any major wp package would be great. Even though it doesn't handle nroff/troff, you may be interested in a MPW tool I've written. The following discription is from it's header. Read '\b' as 'backspace'. Man2RTF is a quick hack to convert a text file to Rich Text Format. It converts some of the control sequences common in Un*x files into the equivalent RTF character formatting. It converts the following sequences: "a\ba" => Bold 'a' "a\ba\ba" => Bold 'a' "a\ba\ba\ba" => Bold 'a' "_\ba" => Underlined 'a' "_\ba\ba" => Underlined Bold 'a' If there's enough interest, I'll hack it to run under Un*x and post it to comp.sources.mac. -- Norman Graham <norman@a.cs.okstate.edu> {cbosgd,rutgers}!okstate!norman The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the state of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, OSU's Department of Computer Science, or of the writer himself.
mingo@well.sf.ca.us (Charles Hawkins Mingo) (09/30/90)
In article <15644@yunexus.YorkU.CA> gall@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Norm Gall) writes: > >I desperately need a utility that will convert nroff/troff documents >to something like Rich Text Format (RTF). I work on a Macintosh with >MS Word, but a converter to any major wp package would be great. This isn't what you're asking for, but there's a program which converts from nroff/troff (or any similar text postprocessor) to MacWrite format. It's called MakeWrite, and was last issued in 1987. -- Charlie Mingo Internet: mingo@well.sf.ca.us 2209 Washington Circle #2 CI$: 71340,2152 Washington, DC 20037 AT&T: 202/785-2089
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (10/01/90)
From article <20847@well.sf.ca.us>, by mingo@well.sf.ca.us (Charles Hawkins Mingo): > This isn't what you're asking for, but there's a program which > converts from nroff/troff (or any similar text postprocessor) > to MacWrite format. > > It's called MakeWrite, and was last issued in 1987. That was written by me, and, yes, it's not what was asked for, but anyone who wants it can get it ftp from indri.primate.wisc.edu [128.104.230.11]. I suppose that if you had a MacWrite-> RTF converter it might be useful somehow. nroff -> MakeWrite -> MacWrite -> Word -> RTF perhaps? Ugh. -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu "Was all of this because I wore a big man's hat?"