[doug@cs.dartmouth.edu: [Groff] groff to RTF or Word]

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi,

i have to share this, even though it's arguable mildly off topic,
but then again, not that much.  This is among the most hilarious
postings i have seen in some time.  Or rather, you don't know whether
you should feel like laughing - or crying.

I mean, requesting a paper by Malcolm Douglas McIlroy for a journal,
than telling him that you accept "any kind of digital text--as
long as it's Word or RTF"?  Oh boy!

In case anybody can help him, please do so, and thank him for
writing runoff - and for his major contributions to AT&T Unix.
But to be frank, i have very little hope for his case.

Maybe he should just drop Bill Gates a mail and kindly ask him,
as his younger colleague, who is in part clearly building on his,
Doug's, work, whether he can quickly hack up four small preprocessor
scripts for him, taking tbl(7), eqn(7), pic(7), and roff(7) input,
that he can use as as filters to pipe into MS Word...

Yours,
  Ingo


P.S.
For more background, see
  http://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_McIlroy


----- Forwarded message from Doug McIlroy -----

From: Doug McIlroy <doug at cs dot dartmouth dot edu>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:35:36 -0500
To: groff@gnu.org
Subject: [Groff] groff to RTF or Word

I have a paper composed in notrivial groff (uses pic,
eqn, tbl, and .PSPIC), which I'd like to submit to a
journal that takes any kind of digital text--as
long as it's Word or RTF.  I haven't been able to find
any tool that offers much help in getting from here to 
there. I'd be delighted if somebody could tell me I 
missed something capable.

Doug McIlroy

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