[TUHS] Troff to ps

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Some web searching turns up something called 'psroff' from the late 80s
or so that will convert C/A/T to postscript. Google 'psroff source' and
you should find something you can use.

Arnold

arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My questions:
> > 1. Is there a troff to postcript conversion utility present in a stock 
> > 2.11 system (or even patch level 4xx system)?
>
> Troff from that era was designed to drive the C/A/T phototypesetter.
> There were tools that converted from C/A/T to postscript but they
> were mostly commercial IIRC.
>
> > 2. Is there a way to build postscript directly on the system?
>
> Likely not.
>
> > 3. Is there an alternative modern way to get to ps or pdf output from 
> > the nroff/troff that 2.11 has?
>
> I would recommend tar-ing up the doc and macros, moving them to Linux
> or other modern system, and using groff -C to create postscript/pdf.
> That really will be the fastest way.
>
> Arnold