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From: mike@inti.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: troff conversion
Summary: need equation conversion
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Date: 8 Aug 90 23:02:58 GMT
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I recently inherited some documents in troff markup.
For various reasons I'd like to convert these into {La}Tex.
The documents are filled with "eqn" constructions.

I have tried a program called tr2tex
[ from its README file:
Troff-to-TeX translator version .93, February 24, 1987.
Copyright (C) by 1987 Kamal Al-Yahya.
]

which does seem to do a lot of conversion; but unfortunately
there are so many weird errors in the resulting "tex" product
that it's unusable; doing it by hand from the start mite be
easier (examples by request).

Does anyone have any recommendations?  Are there other conversion
utilities or filters out there that someone could point me to?

Thanks,
Michael Helm