Re: nroff to postscript?

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From: Dan Ehrlich
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 15:29

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In article <6504@bgsuvax.UUCP> jmiller@bgsuvax.UUCP (Jim Miller) writes:

Jim> Please forgive if this has been asked before.

Jim> I am looking for a package to convert nroff documents to postscript for printing
Jim> on a LaserWriter IINTX.   I am interested mainly in printing UNIX manual pages.

Jim> I have tried things like "nroff -man whatever.l | text2ps > whatever.ps" but
Jim> the results are not quite acceptable. "text2ps" is a simple text to postscript
Jim> converter; I have also tried the "lwf" program.

Jim> Any help/pointers/suggestions will be very much appreciated.  Reply by mail
Jim> will be fine unless you think it would be of general interest.

Get the groff package from the Free Software Foundation.  It is a freely
redistributable version of the DWB.  It can be retirved via anonymous ftp
from prep.ai.mit.edu and is found in the /u/emacs directory in the file
groff.0.6-tar.Z.

-- Dan Ehrlich
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Dan Ehrlich - Sr. Systems Programmer - Penn State Computer Science
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