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From: moraes@CSRI.TORONTO.EDU (Mark Moraes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xtroff
Message-ID: <89Mar3.192950est.677@church.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 89 00:29:46 GMT
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> xtroff is probably not bad, but is there any chance to get
> the program to work with original troff?

There's not much reason why you couldn't hack xtroff to get it to work 
with the original troff, but it would take some work. You'd have to write
a parser for the CAT codes that the original troff emits, in place of
the present ditroff parser. You'd have to change the font selection
strategy - the cleanest way might be to produce a DESC file for a CAT
typesetter and use that, together with vfonts/Imagen fonts or the X fonts.