Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: LaTeX > TeX translator ? Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 90 09:07:27 GMT References: <20837@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 21 In-reply-to: ARRITT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu's message of 6 Jan 90 02:56:48 GMT >>>>> On 6 Jan 90 02:56:48 GMT, ARRITT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (What a waste it is to lose one's mind.) said: > Is there a public-domain package for translating from LaTeX to Tex? well i have seen from odd requests, but this one.... LaTeX is written in TeX, so translating from one to the other seems a slightly odd thing to do. What is `TeX'? there are no standards for what macros look like that do, say, table of contents (tho thats a trivial example), so what sort of TeX would this translator produce? > 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 ^^^^^^^^^ i take it this is meant to be ironic? -- 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)