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From: Me Mann
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 01:20
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 01:20
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In article <1992Aug31.184312.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> hank@ducvax.auburn.edu writes: >In article <1992Aug31.185939.14991@unixg.ubc.ca>, george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) writes: >> I have a largish (~130 pages) .dvi files that I need to convert to text. >> I don't have access to the .tex source files. Is there any tools available >> to do this? I've gone through the FAQ and the closest thing I found was > >If you have access to a PC running MSDOS or OS/2, then dvispell from the >emTeX distribution may be a good choice. Look on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in >pub/os2/all/emtex/betatest/ > >It will not produce a TeX file, but will produce a text file. Math will require >considerable editing. > >--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu Can also use dvi2tty and direct the output to a file. This way you too get a text file and you need to fix the equations/tables etc. Me Han Mann
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!mhmann From: mhmann@nyx.cs.du.edu (Me Mann) Subject: Re: Stripping a .dvi down to text, how to... Message-ID: <1992Sep1.012008.8663@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver for the Denver community. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users. Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. References: <1992Aug31.185939.14991@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Aug31.184312.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 01:20:08 GMT Lines: 20