On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:34:08AM -0600, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > There probably isn't much call for it, but I was > wondering if there was a converter program > from latex source to nicely formatted text. > There are html, ps, pdf, and other converters > I use already, but I just wanted to do as many > formats as possible. > > Is there a nice latex to text converter? The best one I have seen is hevea. It does a fairly good job of using your latex commands to create nicely formatted ASCII. It also does html, though I haven't used it for that. A much simpler (and poorer script is untex). It pretty much just rips out tags with little attempt to fix the formatting. > Any other useful format converters? There are scads of them. Postscript from dvips is the standard output format. Pdf can be generated several ways: latex -> dvi, dvips -> ps, ps2pdf -> pdf or latex -> dvi, dvipdf (or dvipdfm) -> pdf or pdflatex -> pdf There are several different prgrams that will generate html from pdf including latex2html, tth, hevea, and tex4ht. Right now I my favorite is tex4ht. There is also jadetex chich creates SGML/XML. You can also create rtf and png from latex2rtf and latex2png. These make fairly nice documents, though they know fewer latex commands than hevea or tex4ht. There are also a bunch of programs that convert into latex from other formats. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list