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Subject: Re: SUMMARY: R.T.F. to text/troff
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Date: 23 Mar 91 23:11:18 GMT
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From article <1991Mar22.222519.22434@cs.umn.edu>, by lindner@cs.umn.edu (Paul Lindner):
> There is an excellent set of utilities for converting from Rich Text
> Format to normal text or troff available for anonymous ftp from 
> indri.primate.wisc.edu in the directory /pub/RTF.

I wrote 'em, but I wouldn't call 'em excellent.  Even the most advanced
convertor (rtf2troff) doesn't do things like handle tables, break long
output lines reasonably so you can edit the output, allow you to
compensate for different troff versions that understand different special
character escape sequences, etc.

Of course, the only reason I mention this is to be able to say that
a lot of that will be in the next release. :-)

--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu