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From: mike@ists.yorku.ca (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: using gnu to transform LaTeX to ??
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Date: 28 Jul 88 03:14:26 GMT
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In article <5694@dasys1.UUCP>, wfp@dasys1.UUCP (William Phillips) writes:
> In article <8807141806.AA19551@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> DAVIS@blue.sdr.slb.COM writes:
> >
> >	folks - i've just been hacking up a little code to de-LaTeX
> >	a buffer, in particular, to convert a LaTeX file into a VMS
> >	Help format file ..........
> 
> If you come up with anything more generally applicable (i.e., TeX/LaTeX-to-
> plain-vanilla-ascii (slightly formatted would be nice)), I'd like to know
> about it.  T/L-to-nroff would be nice too.....


How about using TeXinfo? TeXinfo is a subsect of sort of TeX commands,
and it does a great deal of sensible reformatting.  If you want more
than the TeXinfo commands, it's going to be messy or difficult to implement.

You already know about TeXinfo, and can't stand its lack of error checking,
its inability to produce documents in more than one major point size style
(the 11pt, 12pt styles in LaTeX), and wish you could do loads of
nifty things that LaTeX allows but TeXinfo won't support?  Well help
may be on its way!  

I've hacked TeXinfo into a LaTeX style, that still passes TeXinfo, with 
a minor wrapper funtion in gnu.  Any LaTeX command that it doesn't understand
is ignored, and you get the better debugging and flexibility of LaTeX.
It needs some more tidying up, but I'll post it to the net when it's done.

Mike.


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