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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: question RE: cnews feed setup
Message-ID: <91Jun25.095148edt.809@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <1991Jun21.001229.25495@world.std.com> <1991Jun24.013614.18401@stb.info.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 13:52:13 GMT
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>                         there is no ascii rendition of
>the man pages, and I don't have text processing tools
>(which is another flame entirely - anyone know of
>any good text processing tools available for public consumption?).

TeX and LaTeX? :-)  (see
pit-manager.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/comp.text.tex/Frequently_Asked_Questions_about_TeX,_etc._-_with_Answers_[Monthly])

The simple solution is to pick up Henry Spencer's Amazingly Workable
Formatter (awf) from any comp.sources.unix archive site.  It's an awk
rewrite of "nroff -man" and a subset of "nroff -ms".

    Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu
    Posting-number: Volume 23, Issue 27
    Archive-name: awf

or ftp.cs.toronto.edu:pub/awf.shar.Z

It's a bit slow, but does format the C News manual pages.  If you
don't have awk, get either mawk (oxy.edu:public/mawk0.995.tar.Z) or
gawk (prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/gawk-2.13.tar.Z)

For a more general solution, try GNU groff.
(prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/groff-1.02.tar.Z) It's written in C++ so you
will need a C++ compiler or g++ (also available from prep.ai.mit.edu)
to compile it.

For those with a non-PostScript HP LaserJet printer (groff doesn't
support it yet), or have old (non-ditroff) troff and want to convert to
ditroff/PostScript/LaserJet, try Chris Lewis' psroff (due to show up
in comp.sources.unix any day now, if it hasn't already appeared, also
on ftp.cs.toronto.edu:pub/psroff-3.0/*)

	Mark.