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- From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: impression->TEX
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.124133.28631@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 12:41:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.141557.8155@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Sender: torbenm@freke.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 36
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- cstevens@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
-
- >Hi folks,
- > 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
- >that there's an option to produce an ascii output in something called the
- >document description language. I don't have impression yet, so i don't know
- >anything about this but it sounds like it might be a TEX like format. If this
- >was possible I'd be able to forget about the 15Meg of TEX I have, buy
- >impression and use that instead (which by many accounts is better).
- >Unfortunately my printing facilities reaslly require a TEX format to get the
- >best output.
- >Hope someone can help
-
- I know of no program that can convert Impression files to TeX, but I
- would imagine that it would be relatively simple to convert the
- document description language to TeX. However, you will have no
- guarantee that the output from TeX will look like the original
- Impression document - lines might be broken in different places, words
- might be hyphenated differently, page breaks might be different etc.
-
- Someone here once wrote a program to convert one of the output formats
- of MS-Word for the Mac to TeX. It worked reasonably well, but normally
- you would manually adjust the output to get a satisfactory TeX
- document.
-
- Another (and probably more realistic) approach is to convert
- Impression files (in some format) to DVI files, as produced by TeX for
- printing. This might even be possible to do as a printer driver (like
- the postscript drivers).
-
- B.T.W, most TeX systems on large machines use postscript printers, so
- maybe you could just use a postscript printer driver, print to a file
- and then print that file on the postscript printer.
-
- Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
-