m. c. de marco

Last night when I should have been sleeping, I was writing sffms2txt, a LaTeX-to-plain text converter for sffms or other simple LaTeX files—ostensibly so that I can send one of my stories to a market that requires plain text submissions.

The one exciting feature of sffms2txt that sets it above detex and query replace is the choice of pseudo-italics:

• *single asterisks*
• **double asterisks**
• _single underscores_
• __double underscores__
• or no distinguishing markup at all

The php source is available upon request.