From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from scc-mailout.scc.kit.edu (scc-mailout.scc.kit.edu [129.13.185.202]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q094EhXM015196 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2012 23:14:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from hekate.usta.de (asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.22.63.82]) by scc-mailout-02.scc.kit.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1) id 1Rk6d8-0005dm-G1; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:14:42 +0100 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk6d8-0008Np-GW for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:14:42 +0100 Received: from iris.usta.de ([172.24.96.5] helo=usta.de) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk6d8-0007HJ-0O for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:14:42 +0100 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rk6d7-00005J-UV for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:14:41 +0100 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 05:14:41 +0100 From: Ingo Schwarze To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: [doug@cs.dartmouth.edu: [Groff] groff to RTF or Word] Message-ID: <20120109041441.GF18528@iris.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 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 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv