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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label recovertex</title>
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<h3>Retrieving (La)TeX from DVI, etc.</h3>
-<p/>The job just can&rsquo;t be done automatically: DVI, PostScript and
-PDF are &ldquo;final&rdquo; formats, supposedly not susceptible to
-further editing &mdash; information about where things came from has been
-discarded. So if you&rsquo;ve lost your (La)TeX source (or never
-had the source of a document you need to work on) you&rsquo;ve a serious job
+<p/>The job just can&#8217;t be done automatically: DVI, PostScript and
+PDF are &#8220;final&#8221; formats, supposedly not susceptible to
+further editing &#8212; information about where things came from has been
+discarded. So if you&#8217;ve lost your (La)TeX source (or never
+had the source of a document you need to work on) you&#8217;ve a serious job
on your hands. In many circumstances, the best strategy is to retype
the whole document, but this strategy is to be tempered by
-consideration of the size of the document and the potential typists&rsquo;
+consideration of the size of the document and the potential typists&#8217;
skills.
-<p/>If automatic assistance is necessary, it&rsquo;s unlikely that any more than
+<p/>If automatic assistance is necessary, it&#8217;s unlikely that any more than
text retrieval is going to be possible; the (La)TeX markup that
creates the typographic effects of the document needs to be recreated
by editing.
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ for <a href="FAQ-toascii.html">converting (La)TeX to ASCII</a> are
applicable. Consider <i>dvi2tty</i>, <i>crudetype</i> and
<i>catdvi</i>. Remember that there are likely to be problems
finding included material (such as included PostScript figures, that
-don&rsquo;t appear in the DVI file itself), and mathematics is
+don&#8217;t appear in the DVI file itself), and mathematics is
unlikely to convert easily.
<p/>To retrieve text from PostScript files, the
<i>ps2ascii</i> tool (part of the <i>ghostscript</i>
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ thence to well-formed XHTML, and import the results into
Microsoft <i>Word</i> (2000 or later). From there, one may
convert to (La)TeX using one of the techniques discussed in
-&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-fmtconv.html">converting to and from (La)TeX</a>&rdquo;.
+&#8220;<a href="FAQ-fmtconv.html">converting to and from (La)TeX</a>&#8221;.
<p/>The result will typically (at best) be poorly marked-up. Problems may
also arise from the oddity of typical TeX font encodings (notably
-those of the maths fonts), which <i>Acrobat</i> doesn&rsquo;t know how
+those of the maths fonts), which <i>Acrobat</i> doesn&#8217;t know how
to map to its standard Unicode representation.
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>catdvi</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/catdvi.zip">dviware/catdvi</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/catdvi/">browse the directory</a>)