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From: DAVIS@blue.sdr.slb.COM
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: using gnu to transform LaTeX to ??
Message-ID: <8807141806.AA19551@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 14 Jul 88 00:58:00 GMT
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	folks - i've just been hacking up a little code to de-LaTeX
	a buffer, in particular, to convert a LaTeX file into a VMS
	Help format file (seeing as how I've written yet *another* one
	of those too...). Seems to me like someone else might have done
	this already - don't worry 'bout the help stuff (that's easy !!):
	its more little oddities that I've missed. So far, I have:

	1) rename sectionheadings (for help or whatever)
	2) stripout all begin/end pairs
	3) fix all LaTeX's \specialchar to specialchar
	3) replace \verb with 
	4) replace \TeX and \LaTeX (with optional \ ) by TeX and LaTeX
	5) delete using the following regexp:

	   \\[^\\][^[{}]\s \s.]*

	   which seems fairly good at taking out all (La)TeX commands.

	6) strip all {}'s from the buffer (except where escaped).

	Any ideas on what else I might need, improved ways of oing this


	such as better regexps ? It probably *has* to be within Emacs, so
	don't mention the PD deTeX programs - I'd rather work in Elisp,
	if possible.

	many thanks in advance,

	Paul Davis
	Schlumberger Cambridge Research
	
	davis%blue@sdr.slb.com

	ps: I'll get the shell history stuff out very soon to those who
	asked about it. Sorry its been so long - I'm very busy...