Someone (possibly me) surely can process the files with dec runoff directly? Doesnt it support postscript output? On 4 Jun 2015 20:52, "Pete Turnbull" <p...@dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
> On 04/06/2015 20:17, Paul Koning wrote: > > DECs Runoff is a markup language that sort of looks like an early >>> HTML, so I suppose I could try a grep conversion to HTML, or just >>> strip out the markup. >>> >> > A much closer relative is Unix “troff” format, which apparently goes >> back to something in Multics called “runoff”. Fancy that. So you >> might dig up a troff manual (here’s one: http://www.troff.org/54.pdf) >> and convert to that. It looks like that wouldn’t be hard. >> > > runoff is pretty simple, so a converter shouldn't be hard to do. You > might look for Unix roff, which begat nroff/troff. > > -- > Pete > > Pete Turnbull >
