Last updated: 23-Apr-92 PD6: 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 BIBMAKE.TAR-Z A shell script and C program for building a TeX bibliography file. Contributor: David Pascoe BIBTOOLS.TAR-Z A set of tools for manipulating BibTeX style bibliographies. Contributor: Kannan Varadhan 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 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 CORRECT1.TAR-Z A program to do spelling correction by suggesting a list of possibly correct spellings for each word. Contributor: Ken Yap CORRECT2.TAR-Z A spelling corrector which allows the user to have his own private dictionary. Contributor: Gary Powell CPIC.TAR-Z A troff preprocessor which produces pic output. Lets you draw simple graphs (nodes and edges type) in pic. Contributor: Terry Jones DCA-TO-TROFF.TAR-Z A program to convert documents written with IBM's DCA to "troff" format. Contributor: Scott Bradner DIFFMK-PERL.TAR-Z A version of "diffmk" (change bars for nroff/troff) which uses perl. Contributor: Randal L. Schwartz 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 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 ENH-SPELL.TAR-Z Some enhancements for the spell(1) utility which allow augmenting of spelling lists, etc. Contributor: Dave Jones FF.TAR-Z A fast text formatter that fills the gap between Berkeley's "fmt" and "nroff". Contributor: Gary Perlman FILL.TAR-Z A filter for "vi" and such which provides centering, filling, and justification on selectable margins. Contributor: FMT.TAR-Z A text formatter similar to Berkeley "fmt". System V-ish. Contributor: Bill Gray FMTR.TAR-Z A simple formatter that just sort of "evens out the lines". Contributor: Mohamed Ellozy HEADINGS.TAR-Z A program to generate an outline of a "troff" document by pulling out all the paragraph/chapter headings. Contributor: Gary Perlman HYPHEN.TAR-Z A program to conditional hyphenation in "troff". Contributor: Stewart Levin INDEXMAC.TAR-Z Troff macros to create an index. Contributor: William E. Davidsen 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 L2A.TAR-Z A program to de-TeX-ify files. Handles LaTeX and some TeX. Contributor: Gisle Hannemyr MKKEY.TAR-Z A set of programs to generate a list of keywords and their related files from text files. Contributor: Scotty NROFF-TABLE.TAR-Z A program to generate "nroff" driver tables from source, and to decompile existing tables into source. Contributor: Bruce Townsend 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 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 PROFF.TAR-Z A text formater based on the "format" utility described in Software Tools by Kernighan and Plaugher. Contributor: Ozan Yigit PUNCTUATION.TAR-Z A program to graphically display sentences using their punctuation. Words are replaced by underscores, punctuation remains intact. Contributor: Gary Perlman REFER-TO-BIBTEX.TAR-Z Convert a "refer" format bibliography to a "bibtex" one. Contributor: David Kotz 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 ROFF.C A C version of the original "roff" program. Contributor: Col. G. L. Sicherman ROFF.TAR-Z Simple text formatter. Contributor: Col G. L. Sicherman RUNFILTER.TAR-Z A program to allow filtering text from Sun's textedit through arbitrary commands. Contributor: Liz Allen-Mitchell RUNOFF-TO-TROFF.TAR-Z Convert DEC RUNOFF format to "troff" format. Contributor: Ian F. Darwin SP4.TAR-Z A visual spelling checker. Contributor: Andrew R. Large SPELLFIX.TAR-Z A spelling corrector program. Menu-driven and accepts user's own dictionaries. Contributor: Ed Reeder TEXCHK.TAR-Z A syntax checker for LaTeX. Contributor: J. P. Massar 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 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 TEXTOOLS.TAR-Z A collection of tools for TeX users. Contributor: Kamal Al-Yahya 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 TRAVEL-MACROS.TAR-Z A set of troff macros for producing itineraries and expense reports. Contributor: Jerry Peek 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 UNIQBIB.TAR-Z Remove duplicate entries from bibliographical databases used with "refer". Contributor: 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