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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: troff <-> TeX Converter
Message-ID: <1989Sep9.153631.3279@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 9 Sep 89 15:36:31 GMT
References: <345@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu>
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As quoted from <345@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu> by selig@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Paul D. Selig):
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| Does anyone know if a public-domain troff to TeX conversion program
| for Unix has ever appeared in comp.sources or alt.sources?  If anyone
| can provide me with a reference to such a program, I would appreciate it!
+---------------

One such is part of the Unix TeX distribution, and I think it was posted to
comp.sources.unix (or even mod.sources?) at one time.  Unfortunately, I need
to translate a -mm document which makes heasvy use of tables and lists, and
tr2tex only does -ms and -me and isn't very good at translating tables....

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| A similar program which I am also looking for is a program which will
| take a [nt]roff input and convert it to PostScript output.  Again, I would
| like something which is in the public domain.  Any hints?
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I hate to say this... but it's called "troff".

You need a postprocessor, of course.  For old troff there is "thack" in the
c.s.misc archives.  For ditroff there are various translators in both the
.misc and .unix archives.

++Brandon
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