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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: (di)troff output to .dvi converter?
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 01:50:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 01:50:10 1987
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|	Does anyone know of any way to get troff or ditroff to generate .dvi
|files instead of the weirdness that it does generate?  Failing that is there
|a CAT->DVI or DITROFF->DVI filter out there?

Why would you want to do this? It is probably easier to write the
device driver for ditroff than to write a converter. Besides, the output
of ditroff is already device dependent. I've done a ditroff previewer
so I know what I'm talking about.

I prefer TeX but I don't consider the output of ditroff to be weird. It
was intended to be readable, well at least as readable as assembly
language.  Troff output is a different can of worms.

	Ken