LaTeX -> Text conversion 

>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.

LaTeX -> Text conversion 

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

LaTeX -> Text conversion 

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

http://para.inria.fr/~maranget/hevea/