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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.text
Subject: Re: Help with removing latex commands
Keywords: NOT delatex
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Date: 14 Nov 90 09:47:17 GMT
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In-reply-to: sanjiv@fergvax.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia)

>>>>> In message <1990Nov13.223952.22567@hoss.unl.edu>, sanjiv@fergvax.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia) (SKB) writes:

SKB> I am looking for a program that will remove all the LaTeX specific
SKB> commands from a document while preserving the structure of the
SKB> document.  I have delatex but that removes the structure of the
SKB> document.  I do not mind if things like equations, tables, and
SKB> pictures are removed.  All I am interested in is plain ASCII text.

If your LaTeX source is reasonably well behaved you can use emacs with
latexinfo to get a structured ASCII text out of your latex document. But
notice that there is no general completely automatic solution to this
problem (not that I know of at least). Whatever tool you use, you will
almost always have to hand-twiddle the output.
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