From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 11:40:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA22489 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22484 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.208]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA27340; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 14:38:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA17931; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 14:38:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 14:38:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: "Boyd R. Faulkner" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tex to text on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Boyd R. Faulkner wrote: > > > Is there a working solution to producing ascii text documents from latex > > sources under FreeBSD. I have tried proting dvitty but have met with > > less than success. Is there a better solution? > > Yeah, sure there is, Boyd, but it isn't small. It's the > /usr/ports/print/teTeX port, which includes both TeX, LaTeX, and all of > the ancillary tools. This ports builds and installs perfectly, and > doesn't short you on anything, and Bernd Rosauer (I hope I spelled that > right) works at keeping it current. > > All you end up having to do is 'latex ' to get the .dvi file. I > have a portscript printer here, so I follow it up with dvips (which is > also part of teTeX). I didn't read this one well enough, about wanting to go to ASCII, not postscript. What I wrote above is very wrong, and I don't myself know of a good way to go LaTex --> ASCII. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------