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Re: troff conversion to Mac document format

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From: Brian Martin
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 1990 10:11
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In article <1990Jul5.124932.28849@cbnews.att.com> kfh@cbnews.att.com (kevin.hennessy) writes:
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>  I am looking for any utilities that will convert existing troff document
>files to some form of WYSIWYG format.  Would like to end up with a format
>to be used on a Mac (MacWrite, MS Word, of Fullwrite).

If you're familiar with sed, lex, or awk, you could write a script
which converts the raw troff documents to rtf format, sort of a
primitive "macroff" :-). I did something similar several years back
when I moved my research papers and refer database over to the mac. I
didn't bother converting the troff mm macros; I simply cleaned up the
document format.

-- Brian
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From: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: troff conversion to Mac document format
Keywords: troff, Mac
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Date: 27 Jul 90 10:11:07 GMT
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