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Re: troff directly to PostScript?

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From: Michael Salmon
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 11:03
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In article <3917@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>, 
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
[...]
|> If you *really* want a nroff instead (fixed size/fonts/Courier only), there
|> are "roff" clones which should be easy to port and build PostScript emitters.
|> Ie: Ozan Yigit's C version of Kernighan&Plauger's Software Tools "roff".
|> Or the one I posted, a copy of the Software Tools in Pascal version (don't
|> ask me for it - it's in c.s.u somewhere, *many* years ago).  The macro
|> facilities aren't anything like troff/nroff - "roff" is incompatible.
|> Neither of these generate PostScript directly - you'd have to modify
|> their output drivers.

There was also a program written by Alan Holub, if memory serves
correctly, called nr. It was published in Dr. Dobbs and was quite good.
Unfortunately it didn't support postscript though I don't think that
would be hard to add. 

-- 

Michael Salmon

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