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In article <1993Oct12.013026@ece.arizona.edu> evans@ece.arizona.edu (Glen Evans) writes:

   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.....???

TeX files are in ASCII with latex formatting commands.
dvi2tty takes the output and gives you ASCII output, but formatted.
I would think the source is freely available, as with most TeX/dvi stuff.
I would try archie and look around.

stan