sanjiv@fergvax.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia) (11/14/90)
I am looking for a program that will remove all the LaTeX specific commands from a document while preserving the structure of the document. I have delatex but that removes the structure of the document. I do not mind if things like equations, tables, and pictures are removed. All I am interested in is plain ASCII text. I have looked into dvitty but that messes up the words. Thanks for any pointers. Sanjiv Sanjiv K. Bhatia Department of Computer Science sanjiv@fergvax.unl.edu Ferguson Hall 115 voice: (402)-472-3485 University of Nebraska - Lincoln fax : (402)-472-7767 Lincoln, NE 68588-0115
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (11/14/90)
>>>>> In message <1990Nov13.223952.22567@hoss.unl.edu>, sanjiv@fergvax.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia) (SKB) writes:
SKB> I am looking for a program that will remove all the LaTeX specific
SKB> commands from a document while preserving the structure of the
SKB> document. I have delatex but that removes the structure of the
SKB> document. I do not mind if things like equations, tables, and
SKB> pictures are removed. All I am interested in is plain ASCII text.
If your LaTeX source is reasonably well behaved you can use emacs with
latexinfo to get a structured ASCII text out of your latex document. But
notice that there is no general completely automatic solution to this
problem (not that I know of at least). Whatever tool you use, you will
almost always have to hand-twiddle the output.
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Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')oneil@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Graham O'Neil LESC) (11/20/90)
Hi, In <4302@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes: >If your LaTeX source is reasonably well behaved you can use emacs >with latexinfo to get a structured ASCII text out of your latex >document. But notice that there is no general completely automatic >solution to this problem (not that I know of at least). Whatever tool >you use, you will almost always have to hand-twiddle the output. Which caught my attention. Can some one send me a pointer on where this process is documented, preferably with a good example. I have been looking for an easy way to strip the \latex and \tex commands so I can have a plain text of work in progress or else so the Writers Workbench Tools don't go high order. Specific questions are: 1. Where and what is latexinfo? I have texinfo.tex. 2. After getting into \tex mode in emacs, what do I do next? If there is enough interest, I will summarize replies and post. Appreciatively, Graham-- Graham O'Neil ...oneil%NASA-JSC.span@{Internet.domain.name} (713)333-7197 ...GONeil@nasamail