Re: [Groff] Groff editor.

[Larry Kollar]

Karee, Srinivas wrote:

> I care about the font/bold/italics as this is a document which will be
> sent to the customer and we cannot afford to send a plain text  
> document
> to customers. Today we are sending a formatted document with all bold
> headings (multiple subsections), italic content and use different  
> fonts.
> I cannot convert it to plain-text.

Apologies for the late response...

Consider using grohtml (using groff -Thtml etc) to convert the file  
to HTML, then pass the HTML through tidy. Keep a copy of the tidy'ed  
HTML file and send a copy to your customer (or the person editing).  
When you receive the changed version, use diffmerge (or on MacOSX,  
use Filemerge.app) to see the differences. If there are only a few  
changes, it should be easy enough to apply them to your original  
groff file.

If there are a lot of changes, you can use XSLT to convert the HTML  
back to groff (some cleanup required).

-- Larry