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29) How can I convert a TeX or LaTeX file into a plain ASCII file,
with all the formatting intact, a la nroff?
Ralph Droms (droms@bucknell.edu) has a style file and a C program
that provide the LaTeX equivalent of nroff. Although it doesn't do
a good job with tables and math, it's the best way to convert that
I've seen. The software is available for anonymous ftp from
sol.cs.bucknell.edu (134.82.1.8) in ./droms/txt-dist.tar.
Another possibility is to use screen.sty, available from all the
major archives. However you need a program called crudetype to
process the resulting dvi file. It is available from
emx.utexas.edu (128.83.1.33) in
./pub/mnt/source/tex/tex-3.0/DVIware/lpr-viewers/crudetype and
from rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12) in
./serv2/soft/tex/drivers/screenview. Another possibility is to use
the LaTeX-to-ASCII conversion program, l2a, available from
comp.sources.misc archives (one archive site is ftp.uu.net
(137.39.1.2)), although this is really more of a de-TeXing
program. Finally, if you are running under Unix and have C++ and
perl, you might try Jonathan Monsarrat's LameTeX package (which
actually does much more than this), available from
wilma.cs.brown.edu (128.148.31.66) in ./pub/lametex.tar.Z.