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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: Options for getting Postscript from troff
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Date: 15 Jan 89 21:20:24 GMT
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|experiences have people had with tpscript?  The makefiles for X
|Windows manuals use something called ptroff; does anybody know
|what that is and where I can get it?  Are there other

ptroff is just a shell script supplied in Transcript to call
ditroff, then psdit (ditroff to PS) and optionally send the
result to the spooler (lpr). You can probably cook up a simple
minded sh script to replace ptroff in 10 mins.