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- Subject: [comp.text.tex] Format LaTeX as plain ASCII or with fancy graphics (LameTeX)
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- Date: 11 Sep 1992 10:42:29 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.text.tex/Format-LaTeX-as-plain-ASCII-or-with-fancy-graphics-LameTeX
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- Apologies to those who have seen this post already.
-
- Hi! This is Jonathan Monsarrat, from Brown University and MIT.
-
- I have written a program called "LameTeX" that knows the basic LaTeX
- commands (not all of them) and can format your LaTeX file in plain
- ASCII format. You don't have to change anything in your .tex file.
- Just use normal LaTeX commands.
-
- Also, you can use it to format text inside a circle-shaped page instead
- of a rectangular page. In fact, you can format your text inside any
- arbitrary shape, like a triangle, or a picture of a big duck, or anything.
-
- There are numerous ways to play with the text and put in fancy graphics
- hacks. If you know the PostScript graphics language then you will be able
- to use special hooks in LameTeX to make your own PostScript special effects.
-
- LameTeX version 1.1 is available free by anonymous ftp from wilma.cs.brown.edu
- (128.148.31.66) as "pub/lametex.tar.Z".
-
- LameTeX comes with a complex demonstration of its capabilities.
-
- This is all possible because LameTeX is not written in TeX macros. However,
- this strength is also its weakness. It can only handle a small portion
- of common LaTeX commands.
-
- I am planning to extend LameTeX by using portions of the real TeX source
- code. To do this it would be great if some TeX expert thought that this
- was a worthwhile endeavour and volunteered to give me some advice on this.
- Any takers?
-
- Here are all the commands that LameTeX knows currently.
-
- Thank you!
-
- -Jon
-
- Special LameTeX commands (hidden in the margins so LaTeX won't see
- them) are called Stealth Commands. They are:
- \stealth \postscript \includeps \pspage \ignore \pscmd \STEALTH
-
- The normal LaTeX commands are: \# \% \& \Huge \LARGE \Large \ \_
- \addtolength \backslash \begin \bf \bigskip \center \chapter \chapter*
- \clearpage \description \document \documentstyle \em \end \enumerate
- \flushleft \flushright \footnotesize \hspace \hspace* \huge \include
- \it \item \itemize \label \large \ldots \medskip \newlength \newline
- \normalsize \par \paragraph \paragraph* \part \part* \quotation \quote
- \raggedleft \raggedright \ref \rm \sc \scriptsize \section \section*
- \setlength \sf \sl \small \smallskip \subparagraph \subparagraph*
- \subsection \subsection* \subsubsection \subsubsection* \tiny \today
- \tt \verse \vspace \vspace* \{ \}
-
-