dedina@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (12/05/87)
Is there a way of getting a TeX file from a LaTeX file? I would like to be able to combine papers written in LaTeX and TeX into one paper, and this seems like the best way to do it. Does a latex2tex program exist? (I'm on a VAX/VMS system). As long as I'm on the net, I might as well repeat my request of a few months ago for information on how to get dvi2vdu, a program from Adelaide University which previews dvi files on non-graphics terminals. According to TUGboat, its supposed to be on the standard distribution tapes, but we received the Maria Code tape a few months ago and dvi2vdu wan't on it. Thanks in advance for your help. -------------------------------------- Mike Dedina Indiana University Speech Research Lab dedina@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
lamy@ai.toronto.edu.UUCP (12/08/87)
>Is there a way of getting a TeX file from a LaTeX file? I would like >to be able to combine papers written in LaTeX and TeX into one paper, plain.tex is a macro package written in raw TeX, LaTeX is a macro package written in raw TeX, and includes part of plain.tex, except for things it does in different ways, namely most of the math environments, sectioning and lists. There is nothing to prevent you from adding the definitions you need from plain.tex to lplain.tex (the LaTeX definitions). You have to be careful not to mix and match incompatible things (don't go using TeX macros that play with margins within a list environment like itemize! -- see Lamport's book for details). You may have to put equations formatted a la TeX inside boxes before letting LaTeX number them, and so on. Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.toronto.edu lamy@ai.toronto.cdn AI Group, Dept of Computer Science uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy University of Toronto lamy%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net (arpa) Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 lamy@ai.utoronto, lamy@utorgpu (bitnet)
kuo@skatter.UUCP (Dr. Peter Kuo) (12/15/87)
In article <10400004@silver>, dedina@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes: > > Is there a way of getting a TeX file from a LaTeX file? I would like > to be able to combine papers written in LaTeX and TeX into one paper, > and this seems like the best way to do it. Does a latex2tex program > exist? (I'm on a VAX/VMS system). WHY do you want to do this? LaTeX is a set of TeX macros. All LaTeX macros are defined in terms of TeX. I see no reason to convert. > > As long as I'm on the net, I might as well repeat my request of a few > months ago for information on how to get dvi2vdu, a program from > Adelaide University which previews dvi files on non-graphics > terminals. According to TUGboat, its supposed to be on the standard > distribution tapes, but we received the Maria Code tape a few months > ago and dvi2vdu wan't on it. Thanks in advance for your help. > -------------------------------------- > Mike Dedina > Indiana University Speech Research Lab > dedina@silver.bacs.indiana.edu One thing you need as well, though, is an ADA compiler. I recall this DVI2VDU beast is written in Ada! I also recall seeing the Ada source posted to the net some moons ago (this year I think), so you can dig around some of the archive (sites). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Kuo | Bitnet (VMS) : KUO@SASK Accelerator Laboratory | (a.k.a. The Beam Warehouse) | uucp (Unix) : !alberta\ Univ. of Saskatchewan | !ihnp4 -- !sask!skatter!kuo Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | !utcsri / CANADA S7N 0W0 | (Earth) | Ma Bell : (306) 966-8528 Disclaimer: I don't know what I am saying, I'm only a physicist. Don't quote me on anything! I speak only for myself. Opus: "Why, fer cryin' out loud..research physicists need Porsches, TOO!!" -- Bloom County