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From: raj@cbnewsl.att.com (Richard A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: transition from troff to ???
Keywords: Sun SPARCstation
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.183325.75@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 9 Nov 90 18:33:25 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Like several other people who have posted articles in this newsgroup
recently, I too am faced with the proposition of transitioning from
troff to some kind of desktop publishing software.

My organization has been using troff for many years, but we just
purchased 6 Sun SPARCstation 1+ machines and I am going to be
evaluating Framemaker and Interleaf as a possible replacement for
troff.

Besides the ease-of-use issue, which I will determine by trying
the products myself, I am trying to find out if there is a way to
convert either Framemaker or Interleaf documents to troff format
and vice-versa.  Converting to troff would allow us at Bell Labs
to submit our documents to the library network electronically,
and converting from troff would allow someone with a Sun to view
a document that was written by someone without a Sun.

If anybody has information about this, please send me mail.  Also,
if there is a product other than Framemaker or Interleaf that I
should be looking at for the SPARCstation, let me know.

Thanks,
Rich Johnson
AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
(201) 386-7345
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