I wouldn't mind running a file through runoff either, or building the Pascal code that was mentioned. It would be a good excuse to do something with one of my machines.
Regards Rob On 4 June 2015 at 20:53, Mark Wickens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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" <[email protected]> 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 > > >
