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Article #6737Re: LaTeX > TeX translator ?
From: Sebastian Rahtz
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 09:07
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1990 09:07
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>>>>> On 6 Jan 90 02:56:48 GMT, ARRITT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (What a waste it is to lose one's mind.) said:
> Is there a public-domain package for translating from LaTeX to Tex?
well i have seen from odd requests, but this one....
LaTeX is written in TeX, so translating from one to the other seems a
slightly odd thing to do. What is `TeX'? there are no standards for
what macros look like that do, say, table of contents (tho thats a
trivial example), so what sort of TeX would this translator produce?
> hired a new person who comes from a department where the secretaries don't
> know TeX, and naturally our secretaries don't know LaTeX. He'd
^^^^^^^^^
i take it this is meant to be ironic?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: LaTeX > TeX translator ? Message-ID: <SPQR.90Jan10090727@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Date: 10 Jan 90 09:07:27 GMT References: <20837@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 21 In-reply-to: ARRITT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu's message of 6 Jan 90 02:56:48 GMT