29) How can I convert a TeX or LaTeX file into a plain ASCII file,
    with all the formatting intact, a la nroff?

    Ralph Droms (droms@bucknell.edu) has a style file and a C program
    that provide the LaTeX equivalent of nroff. Although it doesn't do
    a good job with tables and math, it's the best way to convert that
    I've seen. The software is available for anonymous ftp from
    sol.cs.bucknell.edu (134.82.1.8) in ./droms/txt-dist.tar.

    Another possibility is to use screen.sty, available from all the
    major archives. However you need a program called crudetype to
    process the resulting dvi file. It is available from
    emx.utexas.edu (128.83.1.33) in
    ./pub/mnt/source/tex/tex-3.0/DVIware/lpr-viewers/crudetype and
    from rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12) in
    ./serv2/soft/tex/drivers/screenview. Another possibility is to use
    the LaTeX-to-ASCII conversion program, l2a, available from
    comp.sources.misc archives (one archive site is ftp.uu.net
    (137.39.1.2)), although this is really more of a de-TeXing
    program. Finally, if you are running under Unix and have C++ and
    perl, you might try Jonathan Monsarrat's LameTeX package (which
    actually does much more than this), available from
    wilma.cs.brown.edu (128.148.31.66) in ./pub/lametex.tar.Z.
