[comp.text] TeX to ASCII. No, I'm serious.

mcglk@blake.acs.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) (12/09/88)

This may sound a bit odd, but I'm looking for a set of macros for TeX
to set TeX up for fixed-pitch output (including fixed spaces), and a
DVI-to-ASCII "device" driver.  I don't really care about right-justification,
to be honest.  I just want to be able to have a single, not terribly
complicated TeX source file that I can output either in nice, neat normal
TeX .DVI file, suitable for laser printer, *or*, with an \input <filename>
at the beginning, have it output a .DVI file which can be (moderately easily)
be converted back into ASCII.

Note:  I do *not* want a deTeXer.  I would like a genuine DVI->ASCII
convertor.  Source would be infinitely preferable; sort of that, I suppose
I could get by with something that can run on (a) a VAX/VMS system, and
(b) under (ugh) MS-DOS.  APL and FORTH sources need not be sent; I could
handle C or Pascal fairly easily.  :)

Thanks. . . .

				--Ken McGlothlen
				  mcglk@blake.acs.washington.edu