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Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice |
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Mon, 26 Aug 2002 20:15:52 -0400 |
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Hi.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002, Richard Loken wrote:
> We need a mangler that translates troff into Word... Staroffice mangles stuff
> into Word format but you might as well use Word in the first place, besides,
> Staroffice won't run on my VMS workstation but Groff and Ghostscript will.
I do a lot of writing, and a lot of submissions. FWIW, I write
everything unformatted, using a consistent (and readable!) text editor
style (4 spaces for para indents, three stars for author linebreaks,
[quote] to introduce a quote, etc.). Then I use sed scripts to
transform what I've written into whatever formats I need -- troff,
html, etc. Which means, in the above situation (troff to Word), I
don't have to do troff-to-Word at all. Just open the plain text file
in AbiWord, do some silly WYSIWYG stuff that's a pain in the ass but
doesn't take too long, then save the document in Word. Works like a
charm.
Which is not to say that the aforementioned "mangler" would be
unwelcome. :)
--
PTPi
Peter Schaffter
31, Curé-André-Préseault
Appt. 22
Gatineau (Québec)
CANADA J8T 6E4
A confirmed GNU/Linuxer. Sorry, I don't do Windows.
- [Groff] UTP ducoment translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Richard Loken, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP ducoment translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Jim Reid, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Alejandro López-Valencia, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Jim Reid, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Richard Loken, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice,
Peter Schaffter <=
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Peter Schaffter, 2002/08/26
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Stewart Russell, 2002/08/27
- Re: [Groff] UTP document translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Larry Kollar, 2002/08/29
- Re: [Groff] UTP ducoment translation, bloatware, and MS Offfice, Larry Kollar, 2002/08/28