>Are there any tools to take a LaTeX file, and convert it in a human >readable Text document? I have used deTeX but it seems to ignore/skip >some fields such as "verbatim", which it simply does not print in the >text file.
One possibility is to latex it to a dvi file, and then use dvi2tty to convert this into a text file. This isn't a great method, but I don't think that any method for doing this is perfect.
Faheem Mitha.
I use tth (html) and then htmstrip (DOS-Program) to convert tex files to formatted text files. They need not much work and htmstrip does handle tables pretty well :-)
htmstrip: http://www.erols.com/waynesof
I still need to test hevea which should also produce good results from tex.
Peter
Another possibility is to use Hevea's "text" mode. As always, it won't do a great job on math, but that to be expected. Hevea is available from