This is the Evans & Sutherland mif2man conversion program. It's pretty rough, but it does the job for us. We have modified the standard -man macro package to work better with it, but I can't distribute that because it's part of the 4.3 source code set. I hate to say it, but you're on your own as far as getting this program to work for you. I don't know how it works, and Karl Rowley, the guy who wrote it, is far too busy at the moment to be of any use. Also, he wrote the original version a year ago, and lots of other code has crossed his desk since then. The obvious improvements to be made to mif2man are in the area of beauty. Its output at the moment it not at all pretty (that is, the troff source it generates). Also, you'll notice it only outputs one -man macro, the .SH macro, and it throws away all font size and change information. It probably will be the work of about a moment to add more functionality, but we don't really want to. However, its output is very usable for (for instance) making online "man" pages from frame "man" pages, which is what we use it for. To get usable output immediately from this program, use the n.mac file I've included with this distribution. All it does is redefine the .SH macro, and make the bolding and italicizing work correctly. This is done so words we bolded in our original are underlined when the file is nroff'ed, and bolded when the file is troff'ed. Nils Davis Evans & Sutherland Computer Division Mountain View, CA 415/969-9300 ...!decwrl!escd!nils
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