Re: Reading Tex/LaTex in Wordperfect or Others

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From: Glen Evans
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 08:30

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In article <29d4eb$h62@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>, mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu
(Michael Covington) writes:
|> In article <STAN.93Oct11190529@tedius.cs.uiuc.edu> stan@cs.uiuc.edu
(See-Mong Tan) writes:
|> >In article <1993Oct11.224816.13977@flood.com> dave@flood.com (Dave
Miller) writes:
|> >
|> >   I spent what seemed like an eternity at my previous employer
converting LaTeX
|> >   files to WordPerfect 5.1 (the actual time spent was several
months for a 200 
|> >There are utilities to strip latex commands from latex files.
|> >Alternatively, generate the dvi file, then use dvi2tty to get
|> >ASCII formatted text in approximately the right format.
|> >Would probably be a heck of a lot easier than recreating the
|> >format altogether.
|> 
|> Is the source to dvi2tty available?  Could you enhance dvi2tty so
that
|> at least some of the more basic things (overall type of font,
special
|> characters, underlining, italics) get translated into WP codes?
|>


Seems strange since a Latex/Tex files are already written
in ASCII.....???

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From: evans@ece.arizona.edu (Glen Evans)
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Subject: Re: Reading Tex/LaTex in Wordperfect or Others
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