francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) (03/02/91)
Does anybody know of a program that would take a LaTex file and format it as much like LaTeX as possible, but spit out a simple ASCII file? It occurs to me that keeping around LaTeX versions of things that are primarily text would mean I couldn't grep them as easily... Thanks! -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (03/05/91)
In article <FRANCIS.91Mar1203522@arthur.uchicago.edu> francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
Does anybody know of a program that would take a LaTex file and format
it as much like LaTeX as possible, but spit out a simple ASCII file?
It occurs to me that keeping around LaTeX versions of things that are
primarily text would mean I couldn't grep them as easily...
look for dvi2tty or crudetype drivers; they do an ASCII print of the
dvi file.
but why can't you grep LaTeX source?
sebastian
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