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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
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Subject: Re: Where can I get style sheet for producing a UNIX man page
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Date: 21 Apr 89 02:12:08 GMT
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In article <1507@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) writes:
}
}There are three TeX to ascii converters that I know of (dvidoc, dvitty and 
}crudetype), and of course tr2tex to convert your manual pages to TeX :-)

Notice though, dvitty doesn't even *try* to produce plausible ascii
output.  Dvidoc has some brokenness inside it which gets all distances
screwed up [and so everything that uses "lengths" come out wrong (such
things as the indenting for lists and such)  --- I took a fling at
figuring out how to fix that, but it was too complicated for me to sort
out quickly], and crudetype hasn't shown up anywhere stateside yet, far
as I can tell [there was a mention of texhax of its appearing in the
archives at cs.washington.edu, but it never arrived].  SO... for all
practical purposes, I think there is *NO* useable nroff-like variant of
TeX/LaTeX available just yet...

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