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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 bc378c856d4..39104b0ba0b 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 @@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ <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 +<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 +<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> @@ -20,27 +20,27 @@ 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 +<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 +<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 +<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 +<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 +<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. @@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ HTML as plain text. <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/nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty.zip">nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty/">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> +<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> |