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Date: Sun 27-Sep-1989 06:28:53 From: Unknown Subject: wn -> foo I was wandering around in our NeXT machine, which just got 1.0. It's neat! I'm only able to connect to it using a terminal, though (logistics reasons, not technical), so nroff-type things for WriteNow are useful. I've got that wn2troff thing that was posted a little while ago. It's great but messes up sometimes. So, I was wandering around and cd'd into /NextApps/WriteNow.app, and found a little program in there called wn2rtf. You do 'wn2rtf filename', and a rich-text-format file is put on standard out (it seems). This is human readable. It seems that it would be easier to make a bug-free rtf2troff program than a bug-free wn2troff program, no? Also, it looked like it *might* be possible to make a set of rtf macros for TeX and have it just print the file. Anyone working on either of these? Are they there and I just missed them? Anyway, back to perusal of all the new documentation... >From: dcarpent@sjuvax.UUCP (D. Carpenter)
Date: Sun 28-Sep-1989 23:57:50 From: Unknown Subject: Re: wn -> foo In article <cZ86WZy00VQDE5nEUD@andrew.cmu.edu> dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) writes: >So, I was wandering >around and cd'd into /NextApps/WriteNow.app, and found a little >program in there called wn2rtf. You do 'wn2rtf filename', and a >rich-text-format file is put on standard out (it seems). This is >human readable. It seems that it would be easier to make a bug-free >rtf2troff program than a bug-free wn2troff program, no? Is there a rtf2LaTeX available? Under works? Thanks. Alex Woo woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov >From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Date: Sun 29-Sep-1989 07:38:38 From: Unknown Subject: Re: wn -> foo / comp.sys.next / dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) / Sep 27, 1989 / > it looked like it *might* be possible to make a set of rtf macros for TeX > and have it just print the file. What would you do with the TeX version except just print it? If there was a way to get the high-level document markup (\chapter, etc.), that would be nice. But all you would get is font changes. And if you just print the file, why do you need TeX? Just generate the Postscrip from WriteNow... Jacob
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