Would it not be simple and sufficient just to add something like<br><br>\document class{article}<br>\begin{document} <br><br>at the start of the text file and <br><br>\end{document}<br><br>at the end of the file. If you wish to duplicate the text layout exactly then you might consider using a verbatim environment.
<br><br>Regards<br><br>John <br> <br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">cga</b> <<a href="mailto:gavron@optonline.net">gavron@optonline.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a few text files that I would like to convert to LaTeX.<br><br>Is there any tool that does this..?<br><br>A google search appears to indicate that txt2tex adds minimal TeX<br>formatting to a plain text file, which is precisely what I need, but so
<br>far I haven't been able to locate a debian package that provides this<br>utility.<br><br>I tried a large number of programs available on my system that convert<br>the text files to html, pdf, ps, dvi, dvi, etc. then and use another
<br>utility to convert the intervening format to LaTeX but so far I haven't<br>gotten anywhere.<br><br>Has anyone done this before who might be able to recommend a simple<br>solution?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>cga<br>_______________________________________________
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