From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Book writing mode? Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 11:44:12 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085849074 7926 80.91.224.253 (29 May 2004 16:44:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 29 18:44:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BU6wf-0006L7-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 18:44:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BU6wk-0000K9-B4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 12:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BU6we-0000J0-MN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 12:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BU6wd-0000Io-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 12:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BU6wc-0000Il-UR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 12:44:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BU6wP-00058D-TT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 12:44:14 -0400 Original-Received: from linux183.ma.utexas.edu (mail@linux183.ma.utexas.edu [146.6.139.172]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i4TGiCq09884; Sat, 29 May 2004 11:44:12 -0500 Original-Received: from jcorneli by linux183.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BU6wO-00089f-00; Sat, 29 May 2004 11:44:12 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us: You are on the way to destruction. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18858 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18858 I would appreciate some hint of other applications for converting dvi or pdf files to text files and that could handle different encodings. Since you were using DVI and PDF as part of the pipeline from TeX to TXT, perhaps the program Detex would meet your need more directly. It simply removes LaTeX formatting from a file. I'm not sure how aware it is of different encodings but still I suspect you would see fairly good results.