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.TH L2A 1L "8 October 1990" "Version 1.0"
.SH NAME
l2a \- a LaTeX detergent
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B l2a
[
.B \-a
]
[
.B \-h
]
[
.B \-n
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
.B L2a
is a filter to ``detexify'' texts.  That is, it attempts to
remove LaTeX markup commands, leaving only the body of
text.  It is intended to be used when journal editors request plain
ASCII text for typesetting, or when you want to post a plain version
of a LaTeX document on an electronic conference system.
.PP
.B L2a
is a filter.  Its default operation is to read from standard input
(the keyboard) and write on standard output (the terminal).
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-a
Write out information about
.B
l2a.
.TP
.B \-h
Write out a brief summary of options.
.TP
.B \-n
Generate norwegian headings.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
.PP
Unrecognized markup commands generate an error message on the screen.
There are no return code.

.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Copyright \(co 1988, 1990 Gisle Hannemyr.
.PP
.B L2a
may be freely distributed and copied, as long as this file
is included in the distribution and that these statements
about authorship and copyright is not altered or removed.
.PP
Bug reports, improvements, comments, suggestions and flames to:
.ti +0.2i
Snail: Gisle Hannemyr, Brageveien 3A, 0452 Oslo, Norway.
.ti +0.2i
Email: gisle.hannemyr@nr.no (EAN);
.ti +0.9i
gisle@ifi.uio.no (Internet);
.ti +0.9i
\|.\|.\|.\|!mcsun!ifi!gisle (UUCP);
.ti +0.9i
(and several BBS mailboxes).
.SH BUGS
.PP
There is some Norwegian bias in
.B l2a.
In particular,
there exists several national versions of the ISO 646 7-bit
character set; but
.B l2a
bluntly assumes the standard Norwegian version of the ISO 646.
.PP
Only a subset of LaTeX is understood.
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