4 Jun
2015
4 Jun
'15
1:25 p.m.
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