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Text Processing Tools

Welcome to the Skunkware 7 Text Processing section. These tools are used for document formatting, layout and conversion. If you do any kind of documentation preparation or processing, you will find these tools a great help.

Package List

ASCII to PostScript converter

a2ps is an ASCII to PostScript converter. It has the standard features expected for this kind of program, but moreover, it has pretty-printing capabilities. Some samples are available: in plain style, or in the gray style (and its alternative gray2), or with colors.

uw7/textproc/

osr5/textproc/

http://www-inf.enst.fr/~demaille/ftp/a2ps/

http://www-inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/

Enscript text to postscript converter

Enscript converts text files to PostScript and spools generated PostScript output to the specified printer or leaves it to file. If no input files are given, enscript processes standard input. Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and it has many options which can be used to customize printouts.

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/textproc/enscript/

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/textproc/enscript/

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/

http://www.ngs.fi/mtr/genscript/

Aladdin Ghostscript - A PostScript(tm) interpreter

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/textproc/gs/

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/textproc/gs/

ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/

Ghostscript is a PostScript viewer,interpreter and converter. Using Ghostscript you can "convert" a PostScript document to be displayed on a wide range of devices, from an X11 screen to a whole plethora of printers. A companion program, GhostView, provides an easier viewing interface for X11.

Ghostscript supports PostScript, PostScript levels 1 and 2 and PDF files as input, and can produce output for the following devices and file formats: x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11mono sxlcrt ega vga svga16 ap3250 appledmp bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 ccr cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj500 cdj550 cp50 declj250 deskjet djet500 djet500c dnj650c epson eps9mid eps9high epsonc ibmpro imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq jetp3852 laserjet la50 lbp8 lips3 ln03 lj250 ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 lj4dith ljetplus lj5gray lp2563 lp8000 lq850 m8510 necp6 oce9050 oki182 okiibm paintjet pj pjetxl pjxl pjxl300 pxlmono pxlcolor r4081 sj48 st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 uniprint xes dfaxhigh dfaxlow faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 epswrite pdfwrite pswrite bit bitrgb bitcmyk bmpmono bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m cgmmono cgm8 cgm24 cif jpeg jpeggray miff24 mgrmono mgrgray2 mgrgray4 mgrgray8 mgr4 mgr8 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw pkm pkmraw pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m psmono psgray sgirgb tiff12nc tiff24nc tifflzw tiffpack.

This version of Ghostscript can also render directly to the OSR5 console. To do this, use the command gs -sDEVICE=vga FILENAME.

GNU roff text processing tools

groff is the GNU replacement for the various roff related utilities. groff contains nroff, troff, eqn, tbl, soelim, pic, refer and others. It contains man macro packages including the man, ms and me macro sets. This is a very reliable, robust set of tools.

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/textproc/

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/textproc/groff/

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/

Paragraph reformatter

Par is a paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better.

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/textproc/par/

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/textproc/par/

http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/

http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/

SGML Conversion and rendering tools

This set of tools used be known as the "LinuxDOC" package. It contains a set of SGML DTD's for creating good looking documents from SGML source. SGMLtools can convert to HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, Lyx, RTF and plain ASCII.

Part of this package includes James Clark's SP and SGMLS parsers, which are used for verifying your documents against the LinuxDOC DTD. SP and SGMLS are used by other SGML related tools.

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/textproc/sgmltools/

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/textproc/sgml-tools/

http://www.sgmltools.org/download.html

http://www.sgmltools.org

TeX text formatting and typesetting

teTeX is a complete TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems.

TeX formats the interspersed text and commands contained in the named files and outputs a typesetter independent file (called DVI, which is short for DeVice Independent). TeX capabilities and language are described in The TeX book.

TeX is normally used with a large body of precompiled macros, and there are several specific formatting systems, such as LaTeX, which require the support of several macro files. The basic programs as compiled are called initex and virtex, and are distinguished by the fact that initex can be used to precompile macros into a .fmt file, which is used by virtex. On the other hand, virtex starts more quickly and can read a precompiled .fmt file, but it can- not create one. It is the version of TeX which is usually invoked in production, as opposed to installation.

The TeX Users Group maintains an extensive TeX web site at http://www.tug.org.

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/textproc/teTeX

ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/comp/tex/teTeX

http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/tetex.html

TeX text formatting and typesetting

TeX formats the interspersed text and commands contained in the named files and outputs a typesetter independent file (called DVI, which is short for DeVice Independent). TeX capabilities and language are described in The TeX book.

TeX is normally used with a large body of precompiled macros, and there are several specific formatting systems, such as LaTeX, which require the support of several macro files. The basic programs as compiled are called initex and virtex, and are distinguished by the fact that initex can be used to precompile macros into a .fmt file, which is used by virtex. On the other hand, virtex starts more quickly and can read a precompiled .fmt file, but it can- not create one. It is the version of TeX which is usually invoked in production, as opposed to installation.

The TeX Users Group maintains an extensive TeX web site at http://www.tug.org.

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/textproc/

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/textproc/

ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/

http://www.tug.org/

Texinfo - the GNU documentation system

Texinfo is the GNU standard documentation system. It can be used to produce hypertext, online documentation and very professional printed documentation. It contains the on-line viewing utility as well as elisp programs for Emacs to read the documentation. Texinfo also contains the base input file for use with TeX for producing the printed documentation.

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/textproc/texinfo/

http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/textproc/

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/

Last Updated: Thursday Mar 18, 1999 at 15:38:19 PST