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- From: rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead)
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- Subject: Re: impression->TEX
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.130140.2375@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 13:01:40 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.141557.8155@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Shell Centre for Maths Education , University of Nottingham
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- In article <1992Aug10.141557.8155@vax.oxford.ac.uk> cstevens@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- > anyone out there know if CC's Impression can produce TEX output files?
- >does anyone have a module that'll convert from one to the other. I've been told
-
- Impression "Document Description Format" looks a bit like this:
-
- {Lots and lots of format data}
- Some plain text, with or with out linefeeds & returns as required
- {"Italic" on}A bit of text in Italics{"Italic" off} and without
- {"Wobbly" on}A bit of text in a user defined style{"Wobbly" off}
-
- etc.
-
- So you could probably write a utility to do the conversion (e.g. in
- one of the UN*X-type PD tools such as SED or as a MICROEMACS Macro).
-
- ASCII input/output is a doddle.
-
- Impression has a mechanism for bolt-on import/export modules, but I don't
- think anybody other than CC has produced any.
-