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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Manual page --> LaTeX?
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Date: 9 Sep 88 14:10:46 GMT
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In article <10834.589815198@pizza>, jr@PIZZA (John Robinson) writes:
[That's me!]
>Since this expects to make each man page its own document, putting
>this inside another document may be a tad problematic, but mainly you
>will have to pick up the definitions of troffman.sty in the package
>and incorporate most of them into the larger document's style.

Silly me, I didn't look at it hard enough.  troffman.sty is like a
minor mode; the translator emits some default document type, but you
can strip the LaTeX \documentstyle{}\begin{document}\end{document}
wrapper trivially and add the troffman option to your outer document.
-- 
/jr
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