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| author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-12-14 00:56:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-12-14 00:56:47 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-toascii.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-toascii.html index 35df57f7ee9..c42cb70514b 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-toascii.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-toascii.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <head> <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label toascii</title> </head><body> -<h3>Conversion from (La)TeX to plain ASCII</h3> +<h3>Conversion from (La)TeX to plain text</h3> <p>The aim here is to emulate the Unix <i>nroff</i>, which formats text as best it can for the screen, from the same input as the Unix typesetting program <i>troff</i>. @@ -9,16 +9,20 @@ input as the Unix typesetting program <i>troff</i>. techniques; sometimes the simple conversion provides a good enough response. Options are: <ul> -<li> <i>dvi2tty</i> (one of the earliest) -<li> <i>crudetype</i> -<li> <i>catdvi</i>, which is also capable of generating Latin-1 - or UTF-8 encoded output. <i>Catdvi</i> was conceived as - a replacement for <i>dvi2tty</i>, but can't (quite) be - recommended as a complete replacement yet. +<li> <i>dvi2tty</i> (one of the earliest), +<li> <i>crudetype</i> and +<li> <i>catdvi</i>, which is capable of generating Latin-1 + (ISO 8859-1) or UTF-8 encoded output. <i>Catdvi</i> was + conceived as a replacement for <i>dvi2tty</i>, but can’t (quite) + be recommended as a complete replacement yet. </ul> +A common problem is the hyphenation that TeX inserts when +typesetting something: since the output is inevitably viewed using +fonts that don’t match the original, the hyphenation usually looks +silly. <p>Ralph Droms provides a <i>txt</i> bundle of things in support of ASCII generation, -but it doesn't do a good job with tables and mathematics. An +but it doesn’t do a good job with tables and mathematics. An alternative is the <i>screen</i> package. <p>Another possibility is to use the LaTeX-to-ASCII conversion program, <i>l2a</i>, @@ -26,14 +30,14 @@ although this is really more of a de-TeXing program. <p>The canonical de-TeXing program is <i>detex</i>, which removes all comments and control sequences from its input before writing it to its output. Its original purpose -was to prepare input for a dumb spelling checker, and it's only usable +was to prepare input for a dumb spelling checker, and it’s only usable for preparing useful ASCII versions of a document in highly restricted circumstances. -<p><i>Tex2mail</i> is slightly more than a de-TeXer - it's a +<p><i>Tex2mail</i> is slightly more than a de-TeXer — it’s a <i>Perl</i> script that converts TeX files into plain text files, expanding various mathematical symbols (sums, products, integrals, sub/superscripts, fractions, square -roots, ...) into "ASCII art" that spreads over +roots, ...) into “ASCII art” that spreads over multiple lines if necessary. The result is more readable to human beings than the flat-style TeX code. <p>Another significant possibility is to use one of the |