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From: GOATHUNTER@WKUVX1.BITNET ("Hunter Goatley, Western Ky. University")
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Conversion from roff to TeX?
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Date: 11 Feb 91 14:21:00 GMT
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Thomas Heller writes:
>I tried for some time to convert input files for t/nroff, the UNIX text
>formatter programs, to TeX or LaTeX. For I'm fairly new to TeX, this did not
>succseed very well. Does anyone know of conversion tools to do this, the
>inverse of texi2roff?
>
The DECUS TeX distribution contains a program called TR2TEX, which does a
pretty good job converting troff to TeX.  If you're interested, contact me
and I'll arrange to send you a copy (it's written in C---for VMS Bitnet
sites running Jnet, I can send the .EXE in VMSDUMP format).
 
>On the other hand I always wondered if it would be possible to write a TeX
>macro library to allow TeX to 'emulate' troff?
>
I was thinking about this just this past weekend!  It should be possible,
but it would (obviously) take knowledge of both.  If anybody has the time
and the interest.... 8-)
 
>Any help, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thomas Heller
>U of Muenster, Germany
><PPH93@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
 
Hope this helps.
Hunter
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ACRS, Western Kentucky University               Voice:  502-745-5251
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