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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 deleted file mode 100644 index 39104b0ba0b..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-toascii.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label toascii</title> -</head><body> -<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>. -<p/>Converting DVI to plain text is the basis of many of these -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> 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 -alternative is the <i>screen</i> package. -<p/>Another possibility is to -use the LaTeX-to-ASCII conversion program, <i>l2a</i>, -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 -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 -<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 -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 -<a href="FAQ-LaTeX2HTML.html">HTML-generation solutions</a>, -and then to use a browser such as <i>lynx</i> to dump the resulting -HTML as plain text. -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>catdvi</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/catdvi.zip">dviware/catdvi</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/catdvi.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/catdvi/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>crudetype</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/crudetype.zip">dviware/crudetype</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/crudetype.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/crudetype/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>detex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/detex.zip">support/detex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/detex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/detex/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>dvi2tty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvi2tty.zip">dviware/dvi2tty</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvi2tty.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dvi2tty/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>l2a</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/l2a.zip">support/l2a</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/l2a.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/l2a/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>screen.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/screen.sty">macros/latex209/contrib/misc/screen.sty</a> -<dt><tt><i>tex2mail</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/tex2mail.zip">support/tex2mail</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/tex2mail.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/tex2mail/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>txt</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/txt.zip">support/txt</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/txt.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/txt/">browse</a>) -</dl> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=toascii">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=toascii</a> -</body> |