R.D. Davis wrote:
>
> Several years ago, I began writing an assembly language reference
> manual for PDP-11 computers that was modeled after notes from a VAX
> assembly language class that I took. A few minutes ago, I discovered
> it amongst other files in my PDP-11 files archive and an idea crossed
> my mind: it's not doing anyone any good just sitting there on one of
> my systems' hard drives, so, if anyone's interested in it, or
> interested in completing it, let me know.
>
> I wrote it for processing by IDOCS Mint on a PERQ, which I've heard is
> similar to Scribe; anyone who's familiar with writing documents in
> LaTeX should have no trouble re-writing it in LaTeX. There's one
> condition to my releasing it: anyone who wants to revise it must do so
> in LaTeX on something other than a system running software from
> Microsoft. So, needless to say, you can't use Mickeysoft Wurd for
> this, or a system running MS-Windows. :-)
Why not troff/groff/nroff (hell -- even wordstar . command or html.)
All of these let you get the original ascii out and convert it.
I can even get Wordstar stuff into pdf's these days.
I'm less than LaTeX literate but not too pad in the other
stuff.
Bill
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Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 15:39:37 BST