Well, I do believe LaTeX was available. The cobble-together part, to be successful, would pull the text out reliably. And the format is readily documented, an

Well, I do believe LaTeX was available. The cobble-together part, to be successful, would pull the text out reliably. And the format is readily documented, and Open/Libre office processes it as well. The code to do the extract might be ugly, but so long as it reliably produced the text in a CI/CD environment, that would be OK.