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In article <129647@puff.encore.com> jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich) writes:
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>So, my question is, has anyone found a way to either save a
>formatted ascii version to a file or use a filter to put back
>troff commands?
>
>jan
>
>P.S. Hi Lar.  Remember me?
>
Hi, Jan.  Still wrestling with FrameMaker 1.3... tsk, tsk.  I have a call in 
to the Frame sales rep regarding this type of conversion. 

The rep I talked with indicates that Frame's Document Filter Pak for RTU site 
license for Sun platforms will import troff files.  I don't know how good 
the conversion is, as that is a difficult translation task.  I don't know why 
these tools wouldn't be available for your Multimaxen or whatever.

If it is also true, as the sales rep says, that FrameMaker's MIF file format 
is SGML-like and will be upgraded to SGML compliance, then there are a couple 
of techniques that will become available for conversion of these files into 
troff.  Image Network (the xroff people) developed some sort of public-domain 
conversion tool for the U.S. government to convert SGML into xroff.  Also, 
keep an eye on SoftQuad's work with SGML and sqtroff...  I'm watching the 
developments in this area with great interest.  Once the SGML tools are in 
place then we should be able to do a lot of nice document conversions.  

BTW, if anyone has that SGML-xroff tool (developed for the NIST?) I'm trying 
to track it down.
 
-lar

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