Last updated: 23-Apr-92
PD6:<UNIX-C.TEXTPROC>
Tools for text processing. Includes filters for "nroff" and "troff",
spelling correctors, etc.
AWF.TAR-Z
The Amazingly Workable Formatter. An "nroff -man" (or subset of
"nroff -ms") clone written entirely in (old) awk.
Contributor: Henry Spencer <
[email protected]>
BIBMAKE.TAR-Z
A shell script and C program for building a TeX bibliography file.
Contributor: David Pascoe <
[email protected]>
BIBTOOLS.TAR-Z
A set of tools for manipulating BibTeX style bibliographies.
Contributor: Kannan Varadhan <
[email protected]>
CHANGEBAR.TAR-Z
A program to automatically add change bars to nroff/troff documents.
Requires Larry Wall's "patch" program, according to the documentation.
Contributor: Rob Peck <
[email protected]>
CHECKNR.TAR-Z
A program to check for matching font changes, size changes,
matching .DS/.DE, .FS/.FE, etc. in troff documents. The real
BSD version.
Contributor: Keith Bostic <
[email protected]>
CORRECT1.TAR-Z
A program to do spelling correction by suggesting a list of
possibly correct spellings for each word.
Contributor: Ken Yap <
[email protected]>
CORRECT2.TAR-Z
A spelling corrector which allows the user to have his own
private dictionary.
Contributor: Gary Powell <
[email protected]>
CPIC.TAR-Z
A troff preprocessor which produces pic output. Lets you draw simple
graphs (nodes and edges type) in pic.
Contributor: Terry Jones <
[email protected]>
DCA-TO-TROFF.TAR-Z
A program to convert documents written with IBM's DCA to "troff"
format.
Contributor: Scott Bradner <
[email protected]>
DIFFMK-PERL.TAR-Z
A version of "diffmk" (change bars for nroff/troff) which uses perl.
Contributor: Randal L. Schwartz <
[email protected]>
DITK.TAR-Z
A program to preview device-independent "troff" output on a
Tektronix 41xx series terminal. This is not the same as "tc",
which uses a Tektronix 4015 terminal.
Contributor: Malcolm Slaney <
[email protected]>
DITREV.TAR-Z
A program to reverse the pages in device-independent "troff" output.
Makes it so that when you print them, page 1 is on top of the stack
instead of the bottom. Can be used as a filter.
Contributor: Mike Schwartz <
[email protected]>
ENH-SPELL.TAR-Z
Some enhancements for the spell(1) utility which allow augmenting
of spelling lists, etc.
Contributor: Dave Jones <
[email protected]>
FF.TAR-Z
A fast text formatter that fills the gap between Berkeley's "fmt"
and "nroff".
Contributor: Gary Perlman <
[email protected]>
FILL.TAR-Z
A filter for "vi" and such which provides centering, filling, and
justification on selectable margins.
Contributor: <
[email protected]>
FMT.TAR-Z
A text formatter similar to Berkeley "fmt". System V-ish.
Contributor: Bill Gray <
[email protected]>
FMTR.TAR-Z
A simple formatter that just sort of "evens out the lines".
Contributor: Mohamed Ellozy <
[email protected]>
HEADINGS.TAR-Z
A program to generate an outline of a "troff" document by pulling
out all the paragraph/chapter headings.
Contributor: Gary Perlman <
[email protected]>
HYPHEN.TAR-Z
A program to conditional hyphenation in "troff".
Contributor: Stewart Levin <
[email protected]>
INDEXMAC.TAR-Z
Troff macros to create an index.
Contributor: William E. Davidsen <
[email protected]>
INSERTS.TAR-Z
A program to insert chunks of text into repetitions of a master
document, such as for generating form letters.
Contributor: Henry Spencer <
[email protected]>
L2A.TAR-Z
A program to de-TeX-ify files. Handles LaTeX and some TeX.
Contributor: Gisle Hannemyr <
[email protected]>
MKKEY.TAR-Z
A set of programs to generate a list of keywords and their related
files from text files.
Contributor: Scotty <
[email protected]>
NROFF-TABLE.TAR-Z
A program to generate "nroff" driver tables from source, and
to decompile existing tables into source.
Contributor: Bruce Townsend <
[email protected]>
NUMEQN.TAR-Z
A general purpose automatic numbering filter for troff mostly useful
for numbering equations but powerful enough to number other things
as well.
Contributor: Brian Fitzgerald <
[email protected]>
PREROFF.TAR-Z
An extensions of "soelim" which eliminates ".so"'s and also handles
running embedded shell scripts and command outputs (for formatting
graphs in text, etc.).
Contributor: Mike Howard <
[email protected]>
PROFF.TAR-Z
A text formater based on the "format" utility described in Software
Tools by Kernighan and Plaugher.
Contributor: Ozan Yigit <
[email protected]>
PUNCTUATION.TAR-Z
A program to graphically display sentences using their punctuation.
Words are replaced by underscores, punctuation remains intact.
Contributor: Gary Perlman <
[email protected]>
REFER-TO-BIBTEX.TAR-Z
Convert a "refer" format bibliography to a "bibtex" one.
Contributor: David Kotz <
[email protected]>
RO.TAR-Z
A text formatter with many of the capabilities of nroff. Based on
a long line of CP/M and MSDOS formatters, going back to the ROFF
formatter described in Kernighan & Plauger.
Contributor: Ted A. Campbell <
[email protected]>
ROFF.C
A C version of the original "roff" program.
Contributor: Col. G. L. Sicherman <
[email protected]>
ROFF.TAR-Z
Simple text formatter.
Contributor: Col G. L. Sicherman <
[email protected]>
RUNFILTER.TAR-Z
A program to allow filtering text from Sun's textedit through arbitrary
commands.
Contributor: Liz Allen-Mitchell <
[email protected]>
RUNOFF-TO-TROFF.TAR-Z
Convert DEC RUNOFF format to "troff" format.
Contributor: Ian F. Darwin <
[email protected]>
SP4.TAR-Z
A visual spelling checker.
Contributor: Andrew R. Large <
[email protected]>
SPELLFIX.TAR-Z
A spelling corrector program. Menu-driven and accepts user's own
dictionaries.
Contributor: Ed Reeder <
[email protected]>
TEXCHK.TAR-Z
A syntax checker for LaTeX.
Contributor: J. P. Massar <
[email protected]>
TEXINDEX.TAR-Z
Takes the ".idx" file produced by LaTeX, sorts it on major-minor
entries, reformats it, turns lists of consecutive pages into
ranges, and then puts out a file that LaTeX can actually make
an index from.
Contributor: Robert Plamondon <
[email protected]>
TEXPP.TAR-Z
A TeX preprocessor intended to allow more structured (ans easily
modified) input to TeX in order to clean up some of its ugliness.
Version 1.2.
Contributor: Laci Csirmaz <
[email protected]>
TEXTOOLS.TAR-Z
A collection of tools for TeX users.
Contributor: Kamal Al-Yahya <
[email protected]>
TRANSFIG.TAR-Z
A set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics whic are
portable to a wide variety of printing environments. Uses the
fig2dev program; includes drivers for EPIC, LaTeX picture environment,
PIC, PiCTeX, and PostScript.
Contributor: Micah Beck <
[email protected]>
TRAVEL-MACROS.TAR-Z
A set of troff macros for producing itineraries and expense reports.
Contributor: Jerry Peek <
[email protected]>
TROFF-TO-LATEX.TAR-Z
A program to translate "troff" source files to LaTeX. The translation
is not always 100%, but it beats doing it by hand.
Contributor: Kamal Al-Yahya <
[email protected]>
UNIQBIB.TAR-Z
Remove duplicate entries from bibliographical databases used with
"refer".
Contributor: <
[email protected]>
UNSOFT.C
A program to convert Wordstar Document-Mode files to plain,
vanilla ASCII format.
Contributor: Paul Homchick
VSPELL.TAR-Z
A spelling checker which runs "spell" and then throws you into
an editor to fix the errors.
Contributor: Brent P. Callaghan <
[email protected]>