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Originally Posted by Sirtel
From the Mithgar FB page: Among other things, the original was written in an eroff/troff format, and converting it to a Word-compatible RTF file will be quite error-prone and tedious. And I need it in RTF for my Legend Maker converter to turn it into a mobi file to upload to Amazon Kindle.
Actually I have no idea what he means by that.
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troff is a relatively early unix document processing language. Some of the books written by early unix developers at Bell Labs and elsewhere were done in troff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff
A list of books written in troff is at
https://www.troff.org/pubs.html
Many of these were published by the likes of Addison-Wesley, McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall, and O'Reilly. What was delivered to the publishers was camera ready.