Conference hydra::amiga_v1

4161.0. "RUNOFF or other Text Formatter that does lists?" by ADVENT::BOAEN () Fri Sep 28 1990 23:13

	Does anyone know of a RUNOFF or runoff like public domain
or cheap text iormatter for the amiga? I do a lot of writing (for DEC)
at home and really need RUNOFF or something close.

 I'm trying to find one that justifies,
fills, and MUST do the equivelent of runoff lists:
.list
.dle"",ll,")"
.le;item
.le;an item
.end list

and .literal - .end literal so can imbed character cell figures.

Preferably could do multi-column tables, but could hack them with tabs
and literals if necessary.

	I'm ticked, I've got excellence!, scribble!, and have looked at
the other Amiga word processors for these features (before I gave up and bought
excellence! for other purposes) and haven't found lists anywhere. Pagesetter doesn't have it
nor (as far as I can tell) does Pro Page (which is too much $$ anyway).

TeX would do the job, but it's too expensive (unless there's a public domain
version for the Amiga,). The Fish one is a demo and too restrictive.

I've got NRO (ff197) and it doesn't seem to do lists. I'd even consider porting
something (Especially RUNOFF) if I could find a C, Modula2, PASCAL source that
wasn't too large. Any ideas? I've tried searching the TAPE amiga and upload
directories, WJG, and Wecker directories as well as AMIGA NOTES. Was surprised
that this hadn't come up before (Or I didn't search for the right string to
find it).

Anyway, help would be appreciated.


'Gards, Verell

    The Bliss source for RUNOFF is quite large.  I recommend TeX.  I
    use AmigaTeX myself, but I think there is a PD port around somewhere.
    Alternatively, you could port it yourself.  The Ultrix port is coded
    in C, so the port to the Amiga might not be hard.
        John Sauter

There is also nroff (Unix formatting tool) on a fish disk. It has a similar
syntax to runoff and there might even be a converter from nroff to runoff
somewhere in DEC.

john