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"1) rtf-tools has its own way of switching between symbols and normal
characters when converting to groff. This patch fixes rtf-tools to
honor the assumption that the \plain command resets to the normal font.
This unscrambles the formatting of some RTF->groff documents.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/specs/rtfspec_16.htm#rtfspec_fontcharformat
only mentions resetting font format properties, not the font itself.
It also says that the default properties are application-specific.
2) rtf-tools specifies the column separation for every column. Since
it is meaningless for the last column of a table, the tbl command
outputs messages to stderr. This patch removes column separation from
the last column of the table to keep groff quiet."
Provided in PR 13012 by Stoned Elipot (Stoned.Elipot@script.jussieu.fr)
Minor enhancements made by agc.
Bibindex and biblook are programs for fast lookup in BibTeX
bibliography data bases.
Bibindex converts a .bib file to a .bix file, which is a compact
binary representation of the .bib file containing hash tables for fast
lookup, as well as byte offset positions into the corresponding .bib
file.
Biblook provides an interactive lookup facility using the .bix and
.bib files.
Provided in PR 13059 by Ben Collver (collver@linuxfreemail.com)
Texi2roff is an unmaintained program program to convert Texinfo to troff.
Beverly Erlebacher wrote the program and made the last release in the late
1980's. William Bader produced a patch in 1996 adding numerous commands and
other functionality. Alain Knaff added a translation table to generate man
pages, and uses it to generate the manuals for mtools. Ben Collver
integrated William Bader's and Alain Knaff's changes and made minor cleanups.
Changes:
- Get rid of ContentStash global. Not that big a deal looking it up
everytime and gets rid of a potential threading problem.
- Switch to shareable library version of expat from sourceforge
(i.e. no longer include expat source and require that libexpat
be installed)
- Bob Tribit <btribit@traffic.com> demonstrated a fix for problems
in compiling under perl 5.6.0 with 5.005 threading.
- Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org> discovered a typo ('IO::Handler'
instead of 'IO::Handle') in Expat.pm that caused IO::Handle objects
to be treated as strings instead of handles.
- Matt Sergeant also provided a patch to allow tied handles to work
properly in calls to parse.
- Eric Bohlman <ebohlman@netcom.com> reported a failure when
incremental parsing and external parsing were used together.
Need to give explicit package when calling Do_External_Parse
from externalEntityRef otherwise fails when called through ExpatNB.
Provided in PR 12584 by Ben Collver (collver@linuxfreemail.com).
troffcvt is a translator that turns troff input into a form that can
be more easily processed. The troffcvt distribution comes with
postprocessors that turn troffcvt into various destination formats
such as HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), RTF (Rich Text Format) or
plain text.
