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From: ted@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Ted Rodriguez-Bell)
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Subject: Re: WP to LaTeX conversion
Keywords: LaTeX
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Date: 26 Jul 89 14:56:30 GMT
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In article <33046@ccicpg.UUCP> swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk) writes:
> [Stuff about Word Perfect deleted]
>Is there an nroff to LaTex conversion utility available?

This gets asked often that I think I should post the answer.  Volume 10
of comp.sources.unix had a troff-to-LaTeX converter called tr2tex.  It
understands the -man and -ms macros, and most tbl and eqn commands.  In
my limited use of tr2tex I haven't run across any conversion problems
that can't easily be fixed by hand, and I have been saved a lot of
drudgery.  Others to whom I have recommended the program have also
praised it.  Archives of comp.sources.unix are available for anonymous
ftp from uunet.uu.net and cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu, among other places.

Thanks to Kamal Al-Yahya for a very useful program.

						--Ted

        	          Theodore Rodriguez-Bell
	        Astronomy Department, University of Chicago
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