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From: romwa@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Dornfeld)
Date: Fri, 8-Apr-88 14:38:14 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Apr8.143814.8406@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: wysiwyg to troff conversion program
References: <227@nvuxh.UUCP>
Reply-To: romwa@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Mark Dornfeld)
Keywords: troff, pc word processor

In article <227@nvuxh.UUCP> jhp3@nvuxh.UUCP (J H Proschan) writes:
>
>About a year ago, Small Press magazine reviewed a program called Softype, 
>by Softest.  This program translated word processor files (WordPerfect, 
>MS Word, Wordstar 2000, Multimate, Samna Word, Displaywrite 3, . . .) 
>into the equivalent troff files.  It was available for MSDOS.  When I 
>tried to call the company, I was told that it had been bought out, and 
>they new company had dropped Softype.
>
>Does anyone know if another company has taken it over, or if there are 
>any similar programs on the market?

I'd be extremely interested in seeing a program like this, but
we are standardizing on SGML for our Publications Department
and in the long run do not see a need for these one-one
translation programs.


Mark T. Dornfeld
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
M5S 2C6

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