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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
>>>...
>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.

Oops, didn't look in the sources list... I'll request tr2latex and check
it out.  Even if it only translates 20% of troff correctly it could be very
useful as most normal documents only use about 10% of troff. However,
I would be supersurprised if tr2latex could produce a decent latex file
from the troff that is generated by monk, tbl, eqn, pic, and other
preprocessors.

If tr2latex does what the introduction to the shar file says it should
generate awful latex input since it won't know what should be in math
mode, it won't know what will be a table or a picture, or something else
that is special. However, maybe it does NOT translate troff documents
to latex but rather tbl, eqn, pic, MM, MS, and other stuff (including a
little bit of troff maybe), and that is much more feasible, but is not
what the original poster asked for. Can anyone with some experience on
tr2latex comment?

Paul.
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