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Article #5474Re: Volkswriter File Format -> TROFF Fo
From: forbus
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1986 19:33
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1986 19:33
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I know your problem well. You'd probably be better off making your translator 100% or, if your PC program allows printer libraries, writing a printer description for whatever printer you really want to drive with it. I use Final Word II (a.k.a. Emacs/Scribe), and have a translator on my Symbolics machine that does 95% of the translation job. Getting that extra 5% is sufficiently painful (even in Lisp!) that I'm going to try making a DVI driver instead -- FWII can drive Applewriters and Laserjets, so it should be able to deal with Imagens. Doing the translation with unix "tools" seems like trying to build a bridge with Elmer's glue and an X-acto knife, if your formatter has any sophisticated commands. I'm afraid we have created a brain-damaged generation of computer science students, for they seem to not see anything wrong with formatting papers using assembly language (i.e., TROFF).
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcsp Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxj!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!forbus From: forbus@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Volkswriter File Format -> TROFF Fo Message-ID: <10800021@uiucdcsp> Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 14:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsp.10800021 Posted: Sat Jan 25 14:33:00 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jan-86 03:01:38 EST References: <478@kontron.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:kontron.UUCP:478:uiucdcsp:10800021:000:903 Nf-From: uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU!forbus Jan 25 13:33:00 1986