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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: sorting in troff(nroff)
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Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 17:30:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 30 17:30:06 1986
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Keywords: troff, nroff, sorting, macros

> ... When you have written your sort program, you might
> care to tackle the aesthetically valid idea of re-writing troff
> in troff......

This isn't quite the same thing, but may be amusing.  I actually wrote
(in awk) a "text preprocessor" for troff at one point.  It did the same
sort of thing for ordinary text that eqn does for equations:  emit it as
detailed instructions for troff, checking to see whether a line was full
or not, doing line breaks, etc.  Worked all right.  Not useful, but fun.
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