Re: [Groff] RTF

[Larry Kollar]

Juan M. Mendez wrote:

> Due to the work, I was looking for a way to automate the creation of
> documents for the Word (or Weird) text processor .

Using the latest versions of groff, you can produce HTML that can be  
cleaned up enough to import directly into Word. I've done it before,  
with acceptable results.

Unfortunately, it's not automatic. There are some things you can do  
up front that produce cleaner HTML on the back-end -- use -mwww and  
tweak some of the internal variables, write a couple of macros -- and  
these can make things like lists easier to work with anyway. After  
generating your HTML, you can pass it through an awk and/or sed  
script (I use both) to clean things up a little more.

Usually, this will produce good enough HTML that Weird will load it  
and (mostly) do the right things with it, insofar as Weird can be  
said to *ever* do the right things. :-P You might want to pass the  
markup through Tidy first; sometimes it helps.

Another possibility is to create a PDF (plain or using -mpdfmark) and  
use a program like PDF2Office to do the conversion. Unfortunately,  
those programs are commercial (PDF2Office is $99) and run only under  
OSX or 'Doze... which isn't such a limitation, seeing that you need  
one or the other to run Weird anyway.

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