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Seeking troff to MS Word conversion utility

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From: Carson T Schutze
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 19:36
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(Apologies if this has been asked recently; I can't keep up with the
volume in these groups.)

I'm looking for a program to convert troff source files (ascii) into
MSWord-readable form as intelligently as possible.  The destination format
could be anything MSWord understands, including RTF or I guess even
MacWrite.  At a minimum, it should attempt to get paragraphing correct and
preserve bolding, italic, etc.  Obviously, it won't deal with anything
approaching the full complexities of troff, but anything is better than
doing it all by hand.

Failing that, can anyone suggest how one might use global substitutions in
Nisus to do some of the grunt work, e.g. could it convert things of the form
"\fIblahblah\fR" into the string "blahblah" in italic?

Replies by e-mail only please; I will post a summary.  Thanks.

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Carson T. Schutze                 Dynamic Graphics Project
               			  Computer Systems Research Institute
(416) 978-6619			  University of Toronto
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From: carsontr@dgp.toronto.edu (Carson T Schutze)
Subject: Seeking troff to MS Word conversion utility
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.153659.5151@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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Date: 7 Jun 91 19:36:59 GMT
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