Re: [Groff] groff to RTF or Word

[Clarke Echols]

On 01/08/2012 08:47 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > I have a paper composed in notrivial groff (uses pic,
> > eqn, tbl, and .PSPIC), which I'd like to submit to a
> > journal that takes any kind of digital text--as
> > long as it's Word or RTF.  I haven't been able to find
> > any tool that offers much help in getting from here to
> > there. I'd be delighted if somebody could tell me I
> > missed something capable.
> >
> > Doug McIlroy
>
> It has been a while, but I think I was reasonably successful at groffing to PDF
> and then importing the PDF into Word.
>
> Mike Bianchi

I did a Google search for "convert pdf to word" and selected the link
to:

   http://convertpdftoword.net/

Use browse field and button to find the file on your system, press
the convert button, and you can open it with your local Word program.

I took a groff file and formatted it into PostScript. Used the Linux
ps2pdf command to create a PDF file, did the conversion and opened it
in LibreWriter.  It did a sort of okay job, but dropped all of the
font changes (no bold or italics).