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1.1       root        1: .TH TR2TEX 1 
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: tr2tex \- convert a document from troff to latex
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B tr2tex
                      7: [
                      8: .B -m
                      9: ]
                     10: .I file ...
                     11: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     12: .I Tr2tex
                     13: attempts to convert into
                     14: .IR latex (6)
                     15: form a document contained in
                     16: .I files
                     17: written in
                     18: .IR troff (1)
                     19: with
                     20: .IR ms (6)
                     21: macros,
                     22: .IR eqn (1)
                     23: equations, and some simple
                     24: .IR tbl (1)
                     25: specifications.
                     26: The result is placed on standard output.
                     27: There is one option.
                     28: .TP
                     29: .B -m
                     30: Convert the document from
                     31: .IR man (6)
                     32: form to
                     33: .IR latex (6).
                     34: .PP
                     35: The output may need some hand polishing.
                     36: .I Troff
                     37: requests that cannot be converted are left
                     38: as comments.
                     39: Some of the converted document may be in plain TeX.
                     40: .SH FILES
                     41: .HP
                     42: .F /usr/lib/tex/troffms.sty
                     43: .IR tex (1)
                     44: macros into which some
                     45: .I troff
                     46: constructs convert.
                     47: .br
                     48: .ns
                     49: .PP
                     50: .F /usr/lib/tex/troffman.sty
                     51: .SH BUGS
                     52: Option
                     53: .B -m
                     54: does not work with 10th edition
                     55: .I man
                     56: macros.
                     57: .br
                     58: Commands that are not separated from their argument by a space are
                     59: not properly parsed (e.g.
                     60: .BR .sp3i ).
                     61: .br
                     62: .I Eqn
                     63: operators
                     64: .L rpile
                     65: and 
                     66: .L lpile
                     67: are treated as
                     68: .LR cpile ,
                     69: .L rcol
                     70: and
                     71: .L lcol
                     72: as
                     73: .LR ccol .
                     74: .br
                     75: .I Eqn
                     76: operators
                     77: .LR size ,
                     78: .LR gsize ,
                     79: .LR fat ,
                     80: .LR gfont ,
                     81: .LR mark ,
                     82: and
                     83: .LR lineup
                     84: are ignored.
                     85: .br
                     86: The closing member of a naturally bracketing pair of
                     87: .I troff
                     88: requests, such as
                     89: .BR .nf - .fi 
                     90: or
                     91: .BR ".ft I" - ".ft R",
                     92: is not supplied automatically after each paragraph.
                     93: .br
                     94: When local motions are converted to
                     95: .L \eraise
                     96: or
                     97: .LR \elower ,
                     98: an
                     99: .L \ehbox
                    100: must be supplied manually.
                    101: .br
                    102: The
                    103: .I eqn
                    104: expression
                    105: .L "a sub i sub j
                    106: is misconverted; use 
                    107: .L "a sub { i sub j }
                    108: instead.
                    109: .br
                    110: Line spacing cannot be changed within a paragraph.
                    111: .br
                    112: Number registers cannot be accessed via
                    113: .BR .nr .
                    114: .br
                    115: Redefinition of some
                    116: .I eqn
                    117: operators, such as
                    118: .LR over ,
                    119: .LR sub ,
                    120: or
                    121: .LR sup ,
                    122: will cause trouble.
                    123: .SH AUTHOR
                    124: Kamal Al-Yahya, Stanford University

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