Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!aurs01!roberson From: roberson@aurs01.UUCP (Charles "Chip" Roberson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TeX/LaTeX info sent to atari.archive Message-ID: <59417@aurs01.UUCP> Date: 8 Jan 91 13:54:03 GMT References: <8841628@arium.stgt.sub.org> <1991Jan4.115756.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu> <0323228@arium.stgt.sub.org> Sender: news@aurs01.UUCP Reply-To: roberson@aurw06.UUCP (Charles "Chip" Roberson) Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC Lines: 29 In article <0323228@arium.stgt.sub.org> be@arium.stgt.sub.org (Bernd Ebach) writes: >In article <1991Jan4.115756.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu> davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu > writes: >> In article <8841628@arium.stgt.sub.org>, be@arium.stgt.sub.org (Bernd Ebach) writes: >> ESSENTIAL.TEX - "Essential LaTeX". Contains VERY basic information. >> >> > And how am I supposed to read those... >> > without having installed TEX allready? >> >> "TeX and LaTeX source files (with the .tex file extender) are ASCII files." > >Bingo, you are right... But it definitly looks ugly and I hate to >read it that way. How about uploading plain ASCII??? What you need is the program called detex. I know it is available on Unix machines and it might be easy to port it to the ST. I don't know if it uses awk or anything like that or if it is pure C source code. Anyway, look in the various TeX archives for a program called detex. cheers, -chip * Work: 2912 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609 (919) 850-5011 * (...!mcnc!aurgate!roberson) || (roberson%aurgate@mcnc.org) || * (71500.2056@CompuServe.com) || (Chip.Roberson@f112.n151.z1.fidonet.org) #include