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- From: hartman@informix.com (Robert Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: Eroff (mainly MM Macros) documents to Frame documents ???
- Keywords: converting MM Macros Eroff
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.193926.4085@informix.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:39:26 GMT
- References: <1gm9pkINNerh@ephor.tusc.oz.au>
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- In article <1gm9pkINNerh@ephor.tusc.oz.au> tim@ephor.tusc.oz.au (Tim Shaw) writes:
- >I am looking for a method/utility for converting Elan Eroff (Version 2.2)
- >Documents to Frame (Version 3.1X) Documents which will require minimum manual
- >operation. Please help!
- >
- >tim@tusc.oz.au
-
- I've done this using a sed script that converted -mm tags into MML.
- The MML can be imported into an open Frame document, or you can use
- mmltomif to convert the MML into MIF.
-
- It took me half a day or so to concoct a sed script that translated
- about 80% of the formatting information. If I'd wanted to bother with
- awk or perl, I probably could have approached 100%. The tricky items
- were nested numbered lists and three-way font changes. I just found
- those and fixed them by hand in Frame after importing the MML.
-
- -r
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