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Article #5701Re: nroff/troff to TeX/LaTex translator
From: Anton Hartl
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1989 12:51
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1989 12:51
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In article <1243@indetech.UUCP> david@emerald.UUCP (David Kuder) writes:
>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 manual page:
Tr2tex understands most of the -ms and -man macros and eqn
preprocessor symbols. It also understands several plain
troff commands. Few tbl preprocessor commands are understood
to help convert very simple tables.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!ztivax!tumuc!lan!hartl From: hartl@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Anton Hartl) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: nroff/troff to TeX/LaTex translator Summary: there is such a beast Keywords: troff nroff TeX LaTex comp.sources.unix Message-ID: <471@infovax.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Date: 16 Jan 89 12:51:01 GMT References: <8248@dasys1.UUCP> <1243@indetech.UUCP> Reply-To: hartl@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Anton Hartl) Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, W. Germany Lines: 20