Mac Text Processing Formats

[Dennis Chen]

In article <173 at posix.UUCP> hlj at posix.COM (Hal Jespersen) writes:
>I would like to create some tools to dump MacOS text documents into
>troffable form, or perhaps vice-versa.  Does anyone have a specification
>available for one of the widely-used formats, like MS Word (maybe RTF?)
>or MacWrite?  One that carries some formatting info along with it, such
>as indentation, fonts, and point sizes?  I called Microsoft Customer
>Support and they had nothing available to release.
>
>Pls e-mail responses.  Thanks.
>
>
>
>					Hal Jespersen
>					POSIX Software Group
>					447 Lakeview Way
>					Redwood City, CA 94062
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>					UUCP:	uunet!posix!hlj
>					 -or-	hlj at posix.COM
According to the advertisement, a software product called "MDPIC" from Avatar
might be a solution for you, it is a program that interprets Macintosh text
and graphics formats and converts them into "pic" and "troff" format.
The "pic" is the generalized graphical front end to "troff" which
enables users to include graphics in "troff" documents.

MDPIC is application independent, it allows you to create "pic" and
"troff" graphics using MacDraw, Excel, MacProject, MacDraft, MacWrite,..

For more information, contact
			    
			    Avatar
			    5606 Northumberland
			    Pittsburgh, PA 15217
			    (412) 422-9509

Dennis Chen, dchen at apple.com