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From: racine@yunexus.yorku.ca (Jeff Racine)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX to ascii conversion
Summary: DVITTY will work\dots
Message-ID: <15956@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 9 Oct 90 17:21:17 GMT
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In article <1990Oct9.014055.9719@water.waterloo.edu> shallit@water.waterloo.edu (Jeffrey Shallit) writes:
>I need a program to convert TeX code to an ordinary ascii file.  Obviously
>the requirements are a bit underspecified.  What I have in mind is something
>that can handle things like \centerline and \noindent "properly", and
>do intelligent things to other TeX commands, so I can easily take
>a colloquium announcement (say) written in TeX and make it readable
>on e-mail to the non-TeX-speakers.
>
>Jeff Shallit
>shallit@water.waterloo.edu

How about using DVITTY? Simply redirect output to a file. For example,

dvitty foo.tex > foo.txt

will do the trick.

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