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Re: nroff/troff to TeX/LaTex translator

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From: David Kuder
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1989 02:50
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In article <8248@dasys1.UUCP> intern@dasys1.UUCP (intern ) writes:
>Is there a troff/nroff to TeX/LaTeX translator? I have a few *roff
>documents that I would like to convert to LaTeX, but doing this manually
>proved to be a monumental task.
>	Thanks,

In comp.sources.unix Volume 10, Number 32 there is a package called
tr2latex written by Kamal Al-Yahya <kamal@hanauma.stanford.edu>. To quote
the introduction to shar:
	This program translates troff documents to latex.  You will 
	notice that the translation is not always 100%, but it relieves 
	one from manual translation, where the user might need to touch
	up on the translated document to customize the translation.
I haven't used this extensively so I don't know how effective it is.

This does however, contradict Paul De Bra who writes in <8738@alice.UUCP>:
>I don't think this exists. Translating a small part of troff may be
>feasible, but troff has many very odd commands (often used in common
>macro packages!) that are very hard or impossible to translate.
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From: david@indetech.UUCP (David Kuder)
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Subject: Re: nroff/troff to TeX/LaTex translator
Summary: there is one in comp.sources.unix v10n32
Keywords: troff nroff TeX LaTex comp.sources.unix
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Date: 15 Jan 89 02:50:47 GMT
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Organization: Independence Technologies, Inc. Fremont, CA
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