diff --git a/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/latex2esis.py b/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/latex2esis.py
index 379878a5b76..d4bfa3f8162 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/latex2esis.py
+++ b/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/latex2esis.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 headers where the table is specified in main().  There is no provision 
 to load an alternate table from an external file.
 """
-__version__ = '$Revision$'
 
 import errno
 import getopt
@@ -114,9 +113,6 @@ def __init__(self, ifp, ofp, table):
         self.line = string.join(map(string.rstrip, ifp.readlines()), "\n")
         self.preamble = 1
 
-    def write_ordinal(self, ordinal):
-        self.write("-\\%%%d;\n" % ordinal)
-
     def err_write(self, msg):
         if DEBUG:
             sys.stderr.write(str(msg) + "\n")