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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html index 0513dc7d8f4..6d54bafaf7f 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html @@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label recovertex</title> </head><body> <h3>Retrieving (La)TeX from DVI, etc.</h3> -<p/>The job just can’t be done automatically: DVI, PostScript and -PDF are “final” formats, supposedly not susceptible to -further editing — information about where things came from has been -discarded. So if you’ve lost your (La)TeX source (or never -had the source of a document you need to work on) you’ve a serious job +<p/>The job just can’t be done automatically: DVI, PostScript and +PDF are “final” formats, supposedly not susceptible to +further editing — information about where things came from has been +discarded. So if you’ve lost your (La)TeX source (or never +had the source of a document you need to work on) you’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’ +consideration of the size of the document and the potential typists’ skills. -<p/>If automatic assistance is necessary, it’s unlikely that any more than +<p/>If automatic assistance is necessary, it’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’t appear in the DVI file itself), and mathematics is +don’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 -“<a href="FAQ-fmtconv.html">converting to and from (La)TeX</a>”. +“<a href="FAQ-fmtconv.html">converting to and from (La)TeX</a>”. <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’t know how +those of the maths fonts), which <i>Acrobat</i> doesn’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>) |