4 Jun
2015
4 Jun
'15
4:40 p.m.
No escape codes. Just text, and return without line feed to overprint one line on
another, to do underlining. If you don?t use underlines, the text is just plain text,
suitable for viewing with ?cat? or ?more?.
paul
On Jun 4, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Mark Wickens <mark at
wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
If it produces DEC/ANSI escape codes I have a converter that will turn it into HTML?
On 04/06/15 21:25, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jun 4,
2015, at 3:53 PM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
Someone (possibly me) surely can process the files with dec runoff
directly? Doesnt it support postscript output?
Not any version I have ever seen;
they all produce plain lineprinter output (with overprinting for things like underlining).
You can of course take the formatted output and run it through a simple postprocessor
like pstext.
Some versions of troff can produce PostScript (current Linux or Darwin ones, for example)
so if you can do runoff->troff then you have a direct path to PostScript. But you?re
right, if someone would offer to run an actual RUNOFF on the sources, that would be a good
approach. I could do it on a RSTS system, which might work provided the source doesn?t
use VMS-specific Runoff features.
paul