Saving Page files as ascii text

How can you save files in pages as text? Exporting to text looses list numbers (rather than treating them a plain numbers.) Printing to pdf, then using Acrobat to save to text gets the line numbers, but still also gets lots of non-printing characters like quotes, etc. What I want is ALL the characters on a page, as plain ascii characters. I don't mind loosing bold, underlines, spacing and so forth, but I'd like to get all the readable stuff.
(I know UNIX, so I tried to use "tr" to get some of the special characters, and to change CR to New Line, but there are too many special characters to be sure of finding them all.)
Thanks for any suggestions.

Yvan:
Well, I'd like to argue with you about this. What you are saying is, of course, correct, FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A COMPUTER EXPERT!! But Apple Mac had tried to do a particularly good job of being useful to normal people. I'm a computer programmer and a mathematician myself, so I know how we like to talk to each other. BUT I also know it is not normal language. The Macintosh, and Pages, are trying very hard to be useful to non-experts, and I think in this case, they have acted as "techies". If Pages says it will save a document as text, I think it should try to translate everything possible from formatted text to plain text, even to the extent of putting extra lines with dashes for underscored characters, cleaning up backspaces, and so forth. (If you used UNIX in the old days, man pages were printed with a program called troff, but then there was an alternate way to get the output so it would be visible on a plain ascii terminal. That's the kind of thing I'm asking for here.)
You might make an argument that normal people don't need the plain Ascii text that I am asking for, and you may be correct -- though there are enough non-standard programs floating around the computer world that I would think the ability to get very vanilla text would be useful for many people as a workaround.
-- Stan

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