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- From: roxy@beaune.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Roland Buresund)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: TROFF-like program with support for swedish-characters
- Message-ID: <517@vercors.frec.bull.fr>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 07:51:07 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.121620.25911@eua.ericsson.se>
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- In article <1992Aug12.121620.25911@eua.ericsson.se>, euabim@eua.ericsson.se (Bimal Dey) writes:
- > I tried to postprocess files generated by Oracle's
- > SQL*ReportWriter with troff. After a while, I gave up
- > the idea using troff, cause it was unable to process
- > swedish-characters.
- >
- > I read the manual page for troff and found out that troff
- > was not 8-bit ASCII clean. Now the question is :
- > Is there any alternative way to format documents with same
- > ease as troff without making swedish characters obsolete?
- >
- > Any ideas/advices/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
- > Please email your response.
- >
- > Thanks in advance.
- >
- > -- Bimal Dey
-
- A simple solution which probably could be costly:
- buy a machine that has ditroff implemented
- (like all Bull machines after 1988, and Yes, I work for Bull)
-
- A harder solution (in terms of manpower) is to get groff from GNU and
- compile it (you need a C++ compiler). It manages to handle all of
- 8859-1 after some tweaking (I can give you the tweaking if you decide
- to go ahead).
-
- Regards
-
- Roland B.
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