RTF2RTF(1)						      General Commands Manual							RTF2RTF(1)

NAME

       rtf2rtf - programs to postprocess the raw RTF generated by the mapping files

SYNOPSIS

       rtf2rtf [options] ..

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the rtf2rtf commands.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page for rtf2rtf.

       rtf2rtf is a program to postprocess the raw RTF generated by the mapping files.

       It is used by other programs in sgml-tools (v1), and usually normal user does not need to use this program directly.

       Following is quoted from the README in the source tree.

       (Begin Quotes)

       I'm not proud of this code. It's a hack foisted upon a hack, nested within another hack or two.	It sort of works well enough for  my  pur-
       poses  (generating WinHelp .RTF files for my documents), but it could definitely use a redesign/rewrite. It started as a simple pertubation
       of the html2html filter, but got ugly very quickly...

       I shamelessly blame the RTF format for most of the hackery here -- RTF is not a _language_ like LaTeX or ROFF -- it's just a  file  format.
       So,  we	can't rely on RTF to do even simple things like "insert a paragraph break here only if the previous token was not also a paragraph
       break. Since the SGML front end has no conditional processing capabilities, multiple blank likes in the SGML  get  translated  to  multiple
       para breaks in the RTF. That's why we use a "lex" filter (rtf2rtf) to postprocess the raw RTF generated by the mapping files.

       Again:  I offer this to the Linuxdoc community with the hopes that it will be useful to others and that someone else can help flesh out the
       missing pieces. What? Missing pieces?  Yes, recall that I say it works "well enough for my purposes".  The replacement files (general, map-
       ping) started out like as the latex replacement files.  Much of them still _are_ the latex replacement files.  I only converted those parts
       that are actually used by my documents. Your documents may require more of the files to be translated to RTF.

       Since I'm using these mappings for actual documentation, I plan on maintaining this backend, so please send me  any  improvements  --  I'll
       coordinate with Greg to make sure they get into the the next official release.

       (End Quotes)

OPTIONS

       The programs does not support normal command line option.

SEE ALSO

       For a complete description, see the README file in the source archive.

AUTHOR

       rtf2rtf	 was   written	by  Steve  Tynor  (tynor@atlanta.twr.com)  December  1995.   This  manual  page  was  written  by  Taketoshi  Sano
       <sano@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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