On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 03:26:31PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2002 at 14:57, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> > > How to convert latex file *.tex to a plain text (ascii) file
> > > *.txt
>
> You can also use ps2ascii for that..but certainly not the shortest way.
>
> or a rather wild hack..
>
> $ cat somefile.tex|grep -n "\{" >somefile.txt
>
> Or something like that. Basically filter tex formatting..But not a simple way
> IMO..
>
Simplest of all that I use:
untex file.tex > file.txt
$ dpkg -s untex
Package: untex
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 24
Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 9210-9
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.1)
Description: Remove LaTeX commands from input.
Remove LaTeX commands from input and send it to output.
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