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Date: Thu,  4 May 2017 22:41:57 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Postscript and troff
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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