Already Been Done! (Score 1)

This has already been done, in the form of the
Usenet cookbook. Here's some info I found from
a really old usenet post. Hopefully it isn't
too out-of-date:

FTP sites of "Classic-usenet-cookbook":

switek.uni-muenster.de:/pub/misc/recipes.tar.Z
uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/recipes.tar.Z
nic.funet.fi: /pub/culture/recipes/recipes.tar.Z
(examples from archie) and many others.

Info:

The "Classic-usenet-cookbook" in LaTex can be found at:
sifon.cc.mcgill.ca:/pub/recipes/tex/*.tex.Z

To view the roff-formatted recipe (Using Unix), you write,
%nroff -man tmac.recip Cheese-kake | more

To make a plain-text copy of a roff recipe, you write,
%nroff -man tmac.recip Cheese-kake > Cheese-kake.txt

If you have groff (Gnu-roff), you can make a postscript copy,
%groff -man tmac.recip Cheese-kake > Cheese-kake.ps

tmac.recip is distributed with the "Usenet-cookbook"

The above technique can be used to format dig.XXX.rec kind of recipes
(fdvw233 - FoodView-recipes).

This can be used to start you on your way.

Good Luck!