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From: oneil@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Graham O'Neil  LESC)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help with removing latex commands
Keywords: NOT delatex
Message-ID: <706@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Nov 90 18:52:52 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.223952.22567@hoss.unl.edu> <4302@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: oneil@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Graham O'Neil  LESC)
Organization: NASA JSC Houston, TX
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Hi,

In <4302@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:

>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.

Which caught my attention.  Can some one send me a pointer on where
this process is documented, preferably with a good example.  I have
been looking for an easy way to strip the \latex and \tex commands so
I can have a plain text of work in progress or else so the Writers
Workbench Tools don't go high order.

Specific questions are:
1. Where and what is latexinfo? I have texinfo.tex.
2. After getting into \tex mode in emacs, what do I do next?

If there is enough interest, I will summarize replies and post.

Appreciatively,
Graham-- 
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