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From: droms@regulus (Ralph E. Droms)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: ASCII output from LaTeX
Keywords: ascii latex nroff
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Date: 13 Jan 91 04:01:15 GMT
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In-reply-to: dsmith@applga.aa.cad.slb.com (J. Daniel Smith)

In article <1991Jan12.160250.6214@applga.aa.cad.slb.com>, dsmith@applga (J. Daniel Smith) writes:

>Rather than a STY file, I would like to see a different FMT file (e.g.
>lplainascii instead of lplain).  That way one wouldn't have to change
>the LaTeX file at all.  I know this doesn't solve all of the problems
>(e.g. \section is defined with strechable glue in a STY file that is
>read in when LaTeX starts...).  But even this could perhaps be solved
>by having a second set of the standard STY files in another sub-dir.

Aha!  A good idea...I'm not a very sophisticated TeX hacker, and would
not have thought of this solution.  I'll look into moving my fixes
into a new FMT file.  I have the pslatex package to use as an example.

Anybody have any ideas about finding *all* the stretchable glue
definitions so I can flush them all out?

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