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From: ARRITT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (What a waste it is to lose one's mind.)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: LaTeX > TeX translator ?
Message-ID: <20837@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 90 02:56:48 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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Is there a public-domain package for translating from LaTeX to Tex?  We have
hired a new person who comes from a department where the secretaries don't
know TeX, and naturally our secretaries don't know LaTeX.  He'd like to 
bring some of his manuscripts, etc. to work on without having them retyped.
He doesn't (refuses to; from the old-world) type himself, so it's something
that would ideally be run by a secretary with little or no computer knowledge.

The preferred product would be VMS-compatible although an MS-DOS package would
be useable.

This seems like it would be a common sort of thing, so please forgive if 
I'm rehashing an old subject.  I just discovered this newsgroup this morning!
Thanks for whatever leads you can provide.
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Ray Arritt                     | 
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy |
Univ. of Kansas                |
Lawrence, KS  66045            |
arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu      |
arritt@ukanvax.bitnet          |