[comp.text.tex] LaTeX -> ASCII

aglew@dual.crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) (08/13/90)

I wish to produce readable ascii (not ascii with overprinting) from my
LaTeX documents, suitable for emailing and posting to the net.  NB. I
want this to be as readable as can be in ascii -- these are not rough
drafts that I'm trying to print.  I need to be able to do this for
simple equations as well as fairly complex tables (implying that I
need some conversion of rules into chunks of ----s).

Dvidoc seems to be the way to go.  However, dvidoc is not installed
locally, we have no Pascal compiler, and some sort of defines file
that web2c requires seems to be missing.  Can anyone send me what I
need to get dvidoc working? - either the missng defines file, or,
preferably, the C output of web2c (which supposedly is portable)?

Thanks in advance.

Any advice on other means of producing good quality ascii from LaTeX 
would be appreciated.

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Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]

S26604@BARILVM.BITNET (08/13/90)

Hi,
Does anybody out there have or know where I can get a DVI to ASCII
converter for IBM PC computers?
Please email replies to me.
                                    Thanks
                                    Zongi