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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: TeX->nroff Conversion Package
Message-ID: <11945@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 19:41:33 GMT
References: <16150@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <16150@brl-adm.ARPA> JPLILER@simtel20.arpa (John R. Pliler) writes:
>... I am looking for a conversion package to convert TeX documents into
>nroff format.

I would say that it cannot be done, except that nroff and TeX both
contain programming languages.  Certainly it is not easy (even the
other direction is quite difficult).

>Even better, where can I obtain sources for TeX?

The program is effectively in the public domain (although the sources
are in fact copyright by D. E. Knuth).  You need to be more specific;
TeX is available on everything from IBM PCs to Crays (at least if they
are running Unix: I believe there is a SysV port that should run on
them).  Unix-flavoured TeX is available from the University of Washington;
contact Pierre MacKay <mackay@washington.edu> (or uw-beaver!mackay,
or mackay@umpqua.cs.washington.edu for those ARPA mailers without MX).
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