[tex-live] apparent bug in detex

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On Wed 3rd Nov, 2010 at 09:32, Zdenek Wagner seems to have written:

> You should report a bug in it, it is obviously improperly compiled. I
> use it regularly even for books with 500+ pages.

Very likely. But since it was compiled by me and I have no idea what to
do about it, complaining about its being improperly compiled while
potentially cathartic is unlikely to be productive.

Best,
Clea

> 2010/11/3  <cfrees at imapmail.org>:
>> On Mon 1st Nov, 2010 at 22:16, Karl Berry seems to have written:
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>>>   pdftotext is already part of TeX Live.
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>>> For Windows only.   (As with many other generic tools.)
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>> I do have pdftotext (though not from TeX Live, obviously) but whenever
>> I've tried to use it it has taken simply forever to produce any output
>> even for quite small documents. I would not like to try this method on
>> a paper of even 3,000 words - never mind 8,000 or more.
>>
>> - cfr
>>
>>>   BTW, pdftotext -layout yields amazingly good results.
>>>
>>> Yes :).
>>>
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