There is also this:
http://www.decuslib.com/decus/vax87c/clement/runoff/aaareadme.1st
Bonner Lab Runoff (RNO)
Bonner Lab Runoff is a text formatter that, when used with your favorite
editor, makes a complete word processor. Its syntax is almost a complete
emulation of DSR (Digital Standard Runoff) and it is very compatible with
previous versions of Runoff. The document and help file for this version
can also be used for DSR. The intent of this program is to support com-
plete scientific word processing to produce publication quality output.
It has been used to produce thesis, progress reports, and scientific pa-
pers here at Rice University.
This version allows complete control of any special printer available via
user definable escape sequences. In addition a macro facility allows
text or sequences of commands to be abbreviated to a single label. If
the printer has the correct features, then variable spacing,subscripting,
superscripting, and equation formatting are possible. By properly defin-
ing escape sequences the user can support different printers in a tran-
sparent fashion. In other words the same input text will print in
identical fashion on different printers with different control codes and
escape sequences.
All written in glorious MACRO!
Mark.
On 04/06/15 21:58, Peter Coghlan wrote:
Paul Koning wrote:
On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Mark Wickens <m...@wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
Someone (possibly me) surely can process the files with dec runoff
directly? Doesnt it support postscript output?
Not any version I have ever seen; they all produce plain lineprinter output
(with overprinting for things like underlining). You can of course take the
formatted output and run it through a simple postprocessor like pstext.
Some versions of troff can produce PostScript (current Linux or Darwin ones,
for example) so if you can do runoff->troff then you have a direct path to
PostScript. But you’re right, if someone would offer to run an actual
RUNOFF on the sources, that would be a good approach. I could do it on a
RSTS system, which might work provided the source doesn’t use VMS-specific
Runoff features.
I've just took a look at the (Open)VMS Alpha 8.2 system in front of me and
it appears RUNOFF comes installed with the OS.
The online help says it can produce output for an LN01, LN01E or LN03.
While these are laser printers, as far as I know, they are nothing like
postscript printers. I did a quick test and the output looks to me like 8 bit
ANSI escape sequences and text.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
