Subject: LaTeX to ASCII (and hypertext) Conversion update.

LaTeX2hyp is a program which converts LaTeX to ASCII text file documents.
(Although this program is intended for LaTeX, I have been informed
that it often satisfactorily converts TeX documents as well.)

Version 1.09 (Oct 6, 94) is now available.

LaTeX2hyp is not just a deTeX program, but actually formats the text,
performs character set substitutions, and generates cross references etc...

It can also be used to generate hypertext cross references compatible with
the Borland TurboVision help compiler.
This allows you to maintain a single doclument for a printed manual and
Online context sensitive help, and WorldWideWeb documents!

LaTeX2hyp currently supports:

   Part,Chapter,Section, Appendix, etc.  numbering.
   Enumeration, descriptions, itemizations.
   Accents and symbols.
   Bibliography.
   Table of contents.
   Index.
   Cross referencing of labels/refs and cites/bibitems.

It currently doesn't do :

   Titlepage (Title page can be produced with %verbatim)
   Table of figures (because we are generating text files)
   newcommand (simple \newcommand replacements work, but complex syntax
               commands are beyond the scope of this program)

   This stuff is just ignored.

   Currently only a book/report/article like style is generated,
   however, styles generated by certain preprocessing programs are preserved
   (BibTeX bibliography, and index styles, for example).

It has facilities for providing ASCII representations for mathmode
equations, inline $$ mathmode, and tables and figures.

Version 1.08/1.09 adds the following features (since 1.05):

  Index.
  Foreign language support.
  Corrects some problems with verbatims.
  Fixes section number when chapters are not used.
  Bibliography entries in output hypertext files are no longer put on
  separate pages.
  Corrects some compilation problems.

I hope to have in the next version (2.0):

  Better LaTeX2e support.
  Tables.

Let me know if you are interested in receiving the program by email or FTP.
(I can provide the C source (UNIX/MS-DOS) and/or executable for MS-DOS).

Roger
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