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From: mark@motown.altair.fr (Mark James)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Troff to TeX converters
Summary: Here's the info again.
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, troff, tr2tex
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Date: 18 Sep 90 18:29:04 GMT
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People have been asking about tr2tex, so here is the information that
I posted on it a couple of weeks ago.

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TROFF-TO-LATEX.TAR-Z is available on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
(26.2.0.74) in directory pd2:<unix-c.textproc>.

This program, written by Kamal Al-Yahya at Stanford, assists in the
translation of a troff document into LaTeX format.  It recognizes most
-ms and -man macros, plus most eqn and some tbl preprocessor commands.
Anything fancier than that needs to be done by hand.  Two style files
are provided.  There is also a man page (which converts very well to
LaTeX :-).  The program is copyrighted but free.

* * *

If you don't have access to ftp, the following comes from Raymond
Chen's "Frequently Asked Questions" posting that appears on several
newsgroups once a month:

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    To obtain a file from SIMTEL20 via email, send mail to an email
    server (e.g., listserv@vm1.nodak.edu or listserv@vm.ecs.rpi.edu) with
    no subject and containing the single line

        /PDGET MAIL PD1:<MSDOS.GRAPHICS>VGAIMG12.ARC UUENCODE

    for example.  Do not include a signature because it confuses
    the server.  No more than 100k or 3 files per day will be sent.
    For general instructions, send the message "GET PDGET HELP".

    BITNET users can also use send LISTSERV commands to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1
    or LISTSERV@RPIECS to accomplish the same thing.

    [...]

    If you don't even have email, most MSDOS SIMTEL20 files are available
    for downloading on the Detroit Download Central network at 313-885-3956.
    It is not a free system but the hourly cost is only 17 cents.
    It's also accessible on Telenet via PC Pursuit and on Tymnet via
    StarLink outdial.  

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Hope this helps.

--
Mark James  <mark@bdblues.altair.fr> or <mark@nuri.inria.fr>