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From: dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: WriteNow->troff translator
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Date: 7 Mar 88 15:48:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Mar  7 09:48:00 1988


I have a program for converting WriteNow documents to troff.  I don't feel
it is really done or I would post it.  And I don't know when (if ever) I
am going to finish it.

But if someone out there wants such a program, I could send it.  It does
a good job of translation, except:
	- it doesn't do footnotes
	- it doesn't do headers and footers (it does leave the proper space)
	- it doesn't do keeps
	- it ignores graphics
Minus those elements, the result does look very much like the Mac original.

I wrote it on a 4.3bsd Unix system; it should be quite portable.
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