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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: linux FAQ in LaTeX
- Keywords: Linux FAQ, LaTeX
- Message-ID: <yui9wB2w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:55:22 EST
- References: <1993Jan11.063506.2551@bronte.boeing.com>
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- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- paula@bronte.boeing.com (Paul Allen) writes:
- > The GNU people are really bad about distributing most of their documentation
- > in texinfo format and then saying "Well, just use emacs!". Fortunately,
- > they also provide the texi2roff program to decrypt the texinfo stuff into
- > a more widely useable format. Is there a similar decrypter for LaTeX that
- > doesn't require a full-up LaTeX installation?
-
- Sorry, but there are quite a few of us who don't have [nt]roff available.
- And at least some of us can't get g++ working either, so there's no groff
- available either. TeX was trivial to port, so I ended up writing a script
- (changed for every individual document, d*mmit!) to convert manpages, troff
- -ms output, etc. to LaTeX-able output.
-
- The worst is the ps output (ghostscript also doesn't work on these systems)
- and "troff -me" (which is completely indecipherable, so I trash anything
- that uses it instead of a STANDARD document format).
-
- ++Brandon
-
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