Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!sharkey!indetech!david From: david@indetech.UUCP (David Kuder) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: nroff/troff to TeX/LaTex translator Summary: there is one in comp.sources.unix v10n32 Keywords: troff nroff TeX LaTex comp.sources.unix Message-ID: <1243@indetech.UUCP> Date: 15 Jan 89 02:50:47 GMT References: <8248@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: david@emerald.UUCP (David Kuder) Organization: Independence Technologies, Inc. Fremont, CA Lines: 24 In article <8248@dasys1.UUCP> intern@dasys1.UUCP (intern ) writes: >Is there a troff/nroff to TeX/LaTeX translator? I have a few *roff >documents that I would like to convert to LaTeX, but doing this manually >proved to be a monumental task. > Thanks, In comp.sources.unix Volume 10, Number 32 there is a package called tr2latex written by Kamal Al-Yahya . To quote the introduction to shar: This program translates troff documents to latex. You will notice that the translation is not always 100%, but it relieves one from manual translation, where the user might need to touch up on the translated document to customize the translation. I haven't used this extensively so I don't know how effective it is. This does however, contradict Paul De Bra who writes in <8738@alice.UUCP>: >I don't think this exists. Translating a small part of troff may be >feasible, but troff has many very odd commands (often used in common >macro packages!) that are very hard or impossible to translate. -- ____*_ David A. Kuder {sun,sharkey,pacbell}!indetech!david \ / / Independence Technologies \/ / 42705 Lawrence Place FAX: 415 438-2034 \/ Fremont, CA 94538 Voice: 415 438-2003