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From: robert@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Robert Inder)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: How can I get text out of latex?
Message-ID: <4423@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Apr 91 13:26:40 GMT
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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I want to find a way of converting a document written in
Latex to a format suitable for another word processing
system (actually, Uniplex).

BURST OF WILD OPTIMISM:
   Does anybody have a suitable converter?
END BURST OF WILD OPTIMISM.

Failing that, plain ASCII.  

Before I launch into writing something, is there any existing
piece of software that will produce plain ASCII from a latex
document (or even from latex output --- i.e. the dvi file).

Even a Latex->nroff converter would be OK...

I know about "detex".  Simply stripping the latex commands isn't enough.  I
would really like something that leaves more of the "intention" of the
various latex commands (e.g. sectioning commands at various depths,
and the various kinds of list-making commands).

Robert.






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