public function texyToText(\Texy $texy)
{
    $html = $texy->getDOM()->toHtml($texy);
    $s = TexyUtf::utf2html($html, $texy->encoding);

    // remove tags
    $s = preg_replace('#<(script|style)(.*)</\\1>#Uis', '', $s);
    $s = str_replace('#><#', '> <', $s); // supply spaces
    $s = strip_tags($s);
    $s = preg_replace('#\n\s*\n\s*\n[\n\s]*\n#', "\n\n", $s);
    $s = preg_replace('#\s\s+#', " ", $s);

    // entities -> chars
    $s = self::unescapeHtml($s);

    // convert nbsp to normal space and remove shy
    $s = strtr($s, array(
        "\xC2\xAD" => '',  // shy
        "\xC2\xA0" => ' ', // nbsp
    ));

    return $s;
}