[nycbug-talk] getting txt files from tex

[George Georgalis]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:15:59AM -0700, Peter Wright wrote:
>
>> I've written some some tex files and makefiles to produce pdf and
>> html output, but today I was asked for text output.... how is that
>> done?
>>
>belive texi2html and texi2pdf should work, i know they are part of our
>stock Irix and RHELinux builds...not sure if it's part of the freebsd
>ports.

they don't seem to have text output options.
Yusuke's suggestion:

lynx -dump file.html > file.txt

seems the best. but it does not generate 'finished' docs.

The docbook standard for linux seems to have macros
to generate text output (eg an option for HOWTOs)
but that doesn't not seem a standard output for tex
processors. a collection of macros:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=toascii

the txt sty can be used for rfc generation...

but, I find it odd that there is no mature tex2txt program,
eg something more than stripping out latex commands.

// George 


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