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- From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
- Subject: Re: WANTED: deTeX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.063019.3126@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Nov17.193037.11051@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:30:19 GMT
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-
- Try "LameTeX". I wrote the comp.lang.postscript FAQ with it, if you
- want an example, including the below plug for it. ;)
-
- -Jon
-
- LameTeX
- can convert simple LaTeX to PostScript or to ASCII.
-
- It specializes in complete versatility of the printed page. The
- standard model for text formatters is that every page is
- necessarily rectangular. LameTeX will let you format text inside
- a triangular page, or a circle page. Just like professional
- magazine editors, you can include pictures of any shape and ask
- the text to flow around them or inside them.
-
- These flexible arbitrarily-shaped margins are PostScript paths.
- If you don't know PostScript, it contains a big library of
- interesting LameTeX page margins. With LameTeX you can fit
- several ``pages'' onto one 8.5x11 inch piece of paper, so you can
- easily make index cards, labels, and half-pages of text.
-
- Also, if you know how to write programs in PostScript, LameTeX
- allows you to very tightly integrate your LameTeX commands with
- your PostScript code. In fact, the PostScript that LameTeX
- outputs is nicely formatted and commented so that you can modify
- it yourself and see how it's done. LameTeX is written with
- PostScript version 1, so it should run on all PostScript
- printers.
-
- Finally, everything about LameTeX is set up to be compatible with
- LaTeX. LameTeX can't do everything that LaTeX can, but the
- special stealth commands guarantee that your fancy LameTeX
- document can be processed by normal LaTeX. This allows you to
- share it with anyone who doesn't happen to have LameTeX.
-
- By Jon Monsarrat, jgm@cs.brown.edu.
-
-
- What:
- Converts-LaTeX-to-PostScript, Text-Formatter,
- Converts-LaTeX-to-ASCII.
-
-
- Status:
- free
-
-
- Platforms:
- UNIX, any C++ platform
-
-
- Get-From:
- wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/lametex.tar.Z
-