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From: langdon@lll-lcc.UUCP (Bruce Langdon)
Newsgroups: net.text,net.unix
Subject: Re: nroff/tex
Message-ID: <433@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Oct-86 01:33:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: lll-lcc.433
Posted: Thu Oct 16 01:33:47 1986
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Summary: conversion to Troff/eqn to more universal TeX
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In article <438@ubc-cs.UUCP>, manis@ubc-cs.UUCP writes:
> while TeX runs on
> most computers known to humanity, troff runs on UNIX, which runs on most
> computers known to humanity. True enough, but computing centre managements
> which don't run UNIX generally aren't enthusiastic about switching to a
> mainframe UNIX port just so some of their users can do troff. 
> 
...and even if yours would, there are good reasons to use TeX on UNIX.

A Berkeley prof and I wrote a book typeset with troff/eqn for McGraw-Hill.
Now I need parts of this --but in TeX. Here at LLL, Lila Chase and I wrote
a set of filters using sed and lex that convert an in-house text+math
typesetter sources (nearly) to TeX. Does anything like that exist
to convert troff/eqn sources (nearly) to TeX?

For that matter, does anyone have ANY info or filters to convert
Wang, Multimate files to ASCII files that can be given to TeX with
a little hand editting?
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