on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:55:15AM -0800, idalton@ferret.phonewave.net (idalton@ferret.phonewave.net) wrote:
>
> I need to convert an ASCII text document to dvi, and I need to make the
> finished document double spaced with 12-point font. I need to do so
> without embedding any formatting directives in the ASCII document.
>
> The man pages and documentation for troff and groff (which I would like
> to use) are not very helpful in this respect.
You need to mark-up a document without adding any markup to the
document. Tough spec.
Following may get you close, though it runs straight to ps, not dvi:
sed -e 'G' < doc | pr | mpage -FCourier > doc.ps
Otherwise, I'd recommend a LaTeX processor which would adapt an
appropriately formatted plain ASCII document without modifying the
original text itself.
Cheers.
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