Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: troff to postscript translators
Keywords: troff ditroff postscript
Message-ID: <104@ecicrl.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 00:44:52 GMT
References: <286@drd.UUCP> <1304@ora.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc. (CRL Division)
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In article <1304@ora.UUCP> tim@ora.UUCP (Tim O'Reilly) writes:
|In article <286@drd.UUCP>, mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence) writes:
|> In <556@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> Jos Vos wrote about TPSCRIPT.  I notice
|> that it expects ditroff output.  Is ditroff output different from troff output
|> and if so, 

Troff generates "Wang Cat" phototypesetting output codes.

|>is there a converter available to do that?
|
|Yes, unfortunately, the Sun has old troff, which is
|different from ditroff (device-independent troff).  You can
|get around this with a package called cat2dit, which comes
|with devps from Pipeline Associates.

Or, if sufficient people are interested, I could post my PD Troff to
PostScript converter.  It's still being shaken out, but it works pretty
good with straight text or eqn (our tbl appears to be broken) on an Apple 
LaserWriter.  [Yeah, I'm the guy who published the lousy Troff to Laserjet 
filter.... This one's much better than that.  Honest!]
-- 
Chris Lewis
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