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From: langdon@lll-lcc.UUCP (Bruce Langdon)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Where can I get style sheet for producing a UNIX man page
Summary: dvidoc works great with the right header
Message-ID: <2440@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 89 06:33:55 GMT
References: <16344@oberon.USC.EDU> <870@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <38942@bbn.COM>
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, LCC, Livermore Ca
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In article <38942@bbn.COM>, cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
> 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), ......
> 
> .....  Dvidoc has some brokenness inside it which gets all distances
> screwed up [and so everything that uses "lengths" come out wrong ...
> ..... I took a fling at figuring out how to fix that, but it was too
> complicated for me to sort out quickly], ........ SO... for all
> practical purposes, I think there is *NO* useable nroff-like variant of
> TeX/LaTeX available just yet...

Take a look at the example in dvidoc.shar3 before you say that again.
I DID take time with it, and I see no evidence that dvidoc itself is
broken.  But the dvi file you feed it WILL be broken if TeX isn't given
values for vertical and horizontal spacings that correspond to monospace
reality. Nothing dvidoc can do to repair that later. So I redefined them
as needed; see dvidoc.shar3. Dvidoc's output is then fine, for me, so far.
This was with plain TeX.  We do need a volunteer to make a .sty file
to do the same for LaTeX.
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