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Article #2505Importing troff document into MS Word
From: Roy Smith
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 16:07
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 16:07
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What's the best way to import a troff document into MS Word (4.0)
on the Macintosh? What I generally do is run it through "nroff -Tlpr",
filter out the random escape sequences, ftp the resulting ascii file to the
Mac and do Open... to read it in, but this is less than perfect. The
biggest pain is that every line turns into a paragraph (I guess I could
minimize that by doing .ll 1000, or something like that) and that I loose
all the \fI...\fP and \fB...\fP formatting.
I'm willing to deal with the fancy tbl and eqn stuff myself, but it
would be really nice if a tool existed to convert the majority of the
formatting to something Word understood. Does it?
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!cmcl2!phri!news From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Importing troff document into MS Word Message-ID: <1991Feb15.160721.15545@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 15 Feb 91 16:07:21 GMT Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 17