Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:07:19 +0530
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From: Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
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	on Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:33:31 +0200)
Subject: Re: Announce: troff emulator in sed (was ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Groff 1.16 uploaded)
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> I was once (when my interent access was spare) left with some man pages
> (of RCS - the version I downloaded didn't include preformatted versions) and
> no ?roff anywhere around my computer.  The sources were not too friendly too
> read but I had "that book" on unix explaining ?roff basics and listing its
> standard library macros.  So I sat down and worte a monsterous `sed' script that
> proccessed them into readable text.  I added some bells-and-whisteles:
> extracting the macro definistion in the source to another sed script,
> highlighting things with ^H (use `less' to view) and stiffing dummy characters
> between non-highlighted chars, running `fold' to fill paragraphs and removing
> that dummy chars.  It's 5 or 6 sed scripts together and a batch file to run it.
> 
> If anybody is interested in it, for curiosity or because he doesn't want to
> download groff (the later is not a recommended reason; it outputs only text and
> not always good) reply and i'll post the scripts or put them on a web page and
> post a pointer.

Yes please. I'd be interested. Could you please have that uploaded
somewhere?

Thanks.

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