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From: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Brian Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for troff to word processor/page layout
Summary: use the nroff driver with an awk script
Message-ID: <4325@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 89 19:20:14 GMT
References: <237@6sigma.UUCP>
Reply-To: bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian Martin)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <237@6sigma.UUCP> blm@6sigma.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
>I've got a bunch of text in troff (actually eroff), using pic and tbl.  I
>need to get this text into either Word, Word Perfect, or Ventura on the
>PC, with as much formatting intact as possible.
>Brian L. Matthews +1 206 854 6578

What I've done in the past is to format the document with something like

     nroff -TEpson my_troff.src | awk -f my_translator > output.doc

or whatever output driver is available (look in /usr/lib/term). This approach
formats your text with embedded style changes for the target output device,
and the awk filter translates the printer codes to RTF format. In your
troff source, you'll need to turn headers and footers off, set the page length
to 66 so that there are no page breaks, and set paragraph spacing to one line
so that your filter can differentiate between line breaks which are word wrap
and line breaks which are for paragraphs.

To handle pic and eqn, you probably want to generate postscript with the ditroff
driver.


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