Re: Reading Tex/LaTex in Wordperfect or Others

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From: Michael Covington
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 02:23

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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?


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