Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: LaTeX-to-text converter? Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 91 16:59:35 GMT References: Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 19 In-reply-to: francis@uchicago.edu's message of 2 Mar 91 01:35:22 GMT In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: Does anybody know of a program that would take a LaTex file and format it as much like LaTeX as possible, but spit out a simple ASCII file? It occurs to me that keeping around LaTeX versions of things that are primarily text would mean I couldn't grep them as easily... look for dvi2tty or crudetype drivers; they do an ASCII print of the dvi file. but why can't you grep LaTeX source? sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)