home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Libris Britannia 4
/
science library(b).zip
/
science library(b)
/
UTILITIE
/
DOS_TEX.ZIP
/
TEX2ASC.DOC
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1993-07-15
|
1KB
|
32 lines
This is the documentation for the tex2asc program.
This is *not* a general purpose TeX-to-ASCII conversion program. It is
specifically designed to convert specific files---namely, classical
Latin texts and their associated commentaries---from TeX format into
ASCII. It does that well, but will not really do anything else.
If you plan to run tex2asc on a Unix machine, you will want to get the
source code (tex2asc.c), and compile that:
example% cc tex2asc.c -o tex2asc
If you are going to run it on an 80x86/MS-DOS or VAX/VMS, take the
associated binary (vms_tex2asc.exe or dos_tex2asc.exe), and if that
doesn't work, you'll have to get your local guru to help you out.
tex2asc is used as a filter, that is, it reads from the stanrard input
and writes on the standard output. If you (as you probably do) want to
make a .txt (ascii) file from a .tex (TeX) file, you will have to
redirect the input and output:
under Unix and DOS,
example% tex2asc < file.tex > file.txt
under VMS,
$ run tex2asc /input=file.tex /output=file.txt
Have fun!