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From: pwh@BOA.GATECH.EDU (Phil Hutto)
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Subject: ditroff dvi -> TeX dvi??
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Date: 11 Jun 88 00:22:30 GMT
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Is there anything available which converts from the dvi produced by ditroff
and friends to TeX dvi? We wish to print departmental technical reports on
our big, fast Xerox printers but they are only set up to print TeX using 
the filter x9700. Is there anything we can do about the few diehards that
are still producing their reports using ditroff?

I have heard about 'source' translators that go from troff to TeX...I've heard
mostly that they are pretty bad. Shouldn't this be easier to do at the
intermediate language (dvi) level?

Thanks.

phil

Phil Hutto   School of Info and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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