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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Postscript and troff
Date: Thu,  4 May 2017 22:41:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170505054157.C0716124AEA4@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 May 2017 15:32:42 +1000." <CAJQxxwkwdBrJ7zJRCgF-rFTYD_Jwh-qFPRPM=3WgvN-cY-gzww@mail.gmail.com>

https://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/man_html/tr2latex.l.html

No idea how good it is though.

On Fri, 05 May 2017 15:32:42 +1000 Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> bwk mentioned that TeX was unworkable for this situation. Maybe it's time
> for another good TeX hack.
>
> :-) brucee
>
> On 5 May 2017 at 15:28, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>
> > This is an opportunity for someone to implement troff macros in TeX.
> > Then you can embed EPS easily!
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > On Fri, 05 May 2017 15:23:39 +1000 Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I asked bwk - troff wizard, and to paraphrase him "there is no good
> > > solution".
> > >
> > > There is the PSPIC macro in groff, but it generates huge files.
> > >
> > > For the latest book they used \X to embed markers and a go programs to
> > > postprocess troff output.
> > >
> > > brucee



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-05  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <CAJDwFdiON+FFjy0SGfn2XE-ZDsyHTAhr+ZGB=5Exjyisdf_CEg@mail.gmail.com>
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2017-05-02  3:44     ` Prof Brucee
2017-05-02  8:59       ` Bruce Ellis
2017-05-02  9:29         ` Steve Simon
2017-05-02  9:37           ` Bruce Ellis
2017-05-05  5:23             ` Bruce Ellis
2017-05-05  5:28               ` Bakul Shah
2017-05-05  5:32                 ` Bruce Ellis
2017-05-05  5:41                   ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2017-05-05  5:53                     ` Bakul Shah

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