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-<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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &mdash; it&rsquo;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 &ldquo;ASCII art&rdquo; 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>
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