Announce: LaTeX-related utility programs --- l2x, FLaTTeN

[Peter Wilson - MSD]

    There are two programs that might be of interest to LaTeXers, namely
L2X and FLaTTeN. Both these programs are alpha versions.

    L2X is a C program that replaces LaTeX commands within a document by
user-defined text strings. Example uses include: removing all (La)TeX comments;
removing LaTeX commands and "pretty-printing" the ASCII source; replacing
LaTeX commands by SGML tags.

   FLaTTeN is a C program that reads in a LaTeX root file and outputs a single
file consisting of the root text and all the text from \included (and \input)
files, recursively.

    Source and manuals are available from the NIST SOLIS repository in directory
                       pub/step/latex/programs
SOLIS may be accessed via anonymous ftp to ftp.cme.nist.gov. Email
and other access methods are available. To get instructions send Email to
nptserver at cme.nist.gov with "help" (without the quotes) as the body of
the message.

Peter W.
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