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From: hartl@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Anton Hartl)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: nroff/troff to TeX/LaTex translator
Summary: there is such a beast
Keywords: troff nroff TeX LaTex comp.sources.unix
Message-ID: <471@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 16 Jan 89 12:51:01 GMT
References: <8248@dasys1.UUCP> <1243@indetech.UUCP>
Reply-To: hartl@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Anton Hartl)
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany
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In article <1243@indetech.UUCP> david@emerald.UUCP (David Kuder) writes:
>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 <kamal@hanauma.stanford.edu>. To quote
... the manual page:
     Tr2tex understands	most of	the -ms	and -man macros	and eqn
     preprocessor symbols. It also understands several plain
     troff commands. Few tbl preprocessor commands are understood
     to	help convert very simple tables.

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