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From: mhnadel@gryphon.CTS.COM (Miriam Nadel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM SCRIPT Formatter
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Date: 8 Mar 88 18:14:13 GMT
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IBM themselves sell a PC version of SCRIPT.  The command structure is
identical to the mainframe version, but I don't know if it supports GML
commands and I'm fairly sure they don't have the formula formatter available
for it yet.  However, I would be concerned about what you'll print it on
because I don't think SCRIPT supports non-IBM printers (though I'm not
sure.  You could check this with IBM if you decide to look closer at that
option.)

Alternatively, it should be fairly simple to write nroff macros which would
read SCRIPT commands as most of it would be a matter of simple translation.
I haven't used nroff in a while but it seems trivial to convert things like
.h3 to .sh or the like.   Subscript and superscript conversion would be
more difficult (if you're not using the SCRIPT formula formatter) but it should
still be feasible.

Miriam Nadel
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