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- From: mhmann@nyx.cs.du.edu (Me Mann)
- Subject: Re: Stripping a .dvi down to text, how to...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.012008.8663@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 01:20:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.184312.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> hank@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Aug31.185939.14991@unixg.ubc.ca>, george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) writes:
- >> I have a largish (~130 pages) .dvi files that I need to convert to text.
- >> I don't have access to the .tex source files. Is there any tools available
- >> to do this? I've gone through the FAQ and the closest thing I found was
- >
- >If you have access to a PC running MSDOS or OS/2, then dvispell from the
- >emTeX distribution may be a good choice. Look on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in
- >pub/os2/all/emtex/betatest/
- >
- >It will not produce a TeX file, but will produce a text file. Math will require
- >considerable editing.
- >
- >--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
-
- Can also use dvi2tty and direct the output to a file. This way you
- too get a text file and you need to fix the equations/tables etc.
-
- Me Han Mann
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