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[99.139.148.170]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d18sm3389890otc.46.2020.07.27.08.58.11 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:58:11 -0700 (PDT) To: arnold@skeeve.com, tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <202007261531.06QFVqZb027062@freefriends.org> From: Will Senn Message-ID: <45106522-da44-1a05-ea57-3864106f0f02@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:58:10 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <202007261531.06QFVqZb027062@freefriends.org> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------8D2FB3D0FA5AB7ADFCA30153" Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] Troff to ps X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8D2FB3D0FA5AB7ADFCA30153 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/26/20 10:31 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > Will Senn wrote: > >> My questions: >> 1. Is there a troff to postcript conversion utility present in a stock >> 2.11 system (or even patch level 4xx system)? > Troff from that era was designed to drive the C/A/T phototypesetter. > There were tools that converted from C/A/T to postscript but they > were mostly commercial IIRC. > >> 2. Is there a way to build postscript directly on the system? > Likely not. > >> 3. Is there an alternative modern way to get to ps or pdf output from >> the nroff/troff that 2.11 has? > I would recommend tar-ing up the doc and macros, moving them to Linux > or other modern system, and using groff -C to create postscript/pdf. > That really will be the fastest way. > > Arnold Arnold, Thanks. This is next up on the to try list. Will -- GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF --------------8D2FB3D0FA5AB7ADFCA30153 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On 7/26/20 10:31 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:


My questions:
1. Is there a troff to postcript conversion utility present in a stock 
2.11 system (or even patch level 4xx system)?

Troff from that era was designed to drive the C/A/T phototypesetter.
There were tools that converted from C/A/T to postscript but they
were mostly commercial IIRC.


2. Is there a way to build postscript directly on the system?

Likely not.


3. Is there an alternative modern way to get to ps or pdf output from 
the nroff/troff that 2.11 has?

I would recommend tar-ing up the doc and macros, moving them to Linux
or other modern system, and using groff -C to create postscript/pdf.
That really will be the fastest way.

Arnold

Arnold,

Thanks. This is next up on the to try list.

Will

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