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Re: troff directly to PostScript?

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From: Vidiot
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 06:56
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In article <1992Oct27.110305.8659@ericsson.se> etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) writes:
<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. 

Why?  As mentioned in previous postings, use groff instead.
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: troff directly to PostScript?
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Date: 29 Oct 92 06:56:23 GMT
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