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- From: t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken)
- Subject: Re: impression->TEX
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.213412.20960@microsoft.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 21:34:12 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA 98052
- References: <1992Aug10.141557.8155@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <1992Aug12.130140.2375@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Aug12.130140.2375@cs.nott.ac.uk> rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead) writes:
- >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.
-
- Alternatively you could write a set of latex macros that could
- interpret CC description documents directly, no?
-
- Piers.
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