[texhax] TeX to text?

[Arno Trautmann]

Hi all!

Writing an article for a magazine, I need to have a text-only file. The
guys want no markup at all, so I cannt send LaTeX code, for proofreading
whatsoever. But I still want to read my document as a nicely formatted
pdf. As I am quite lazy, I don’t want to write two versions, so I tought
of some TeX hackery giving me either text only or the pdf. I am doing
this with the following code in the header:

\immediate\openout13=\jobname.textonly

\let\ifREINTEXT
     \iffalse    %% change this (true/false) to toggle text/TeX

\ifREINTEXT{
  \def\TeX{TeX}
  \def\LaTeX{LaTeX}
}
\fi
\begin{document}
\ifREINTEXT\def\par{^^J}\immediate\write13{\fi


And at the end of the document

\ifREINTEXT}}\fi

That works fine and gives me everything I need. But as this doesn’t look
like the best solution I wondered wether there is a package doing this
in a nice way. If not so, would it be a good investment of time to write
one myself, i.e. does anybody know wether this would be usefull?

cheers
Arno

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