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In article <D1v69B.6H2@acsu.buffalo.edu> sprec-j@acsu.buffalo.edu (Snakeyes) writes:
>From: sprec-j@acsu.buffalo.edu (Snakeyes)
>Subject: LaTex to WP or MSword?
>Date: 4 Jan 95 04:39:11 GMT

>I have a document that I created in LaTeX, so I can have it in either
>.ps .dvi or .tex format.

>I would like this document to be portable to DOS machines loaded
>with WordPerfect and/or MicroSoft Word. Is there a way to do this?
>If the tex file only contained text it be easy to just delatex it, however
>there are also equations and other things in it.


The following converters are known to ME. 
Please supplement if you know more and/or better ones.

LATEX -> RTF (WORD / WORD PERFECT)
==================================

(Word and WordPerfect should be able to read RTF format.)

A. Freeware

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+++++                  Announcing Tex2RTF 1.34                        +++++
+++++  A Free LaTeX to RTF, Windows Help RTF, HTML & wxHelp converter +++++

Purpose
  *  Allows you to maintain manuals in printed and hypertext formats.
  *  Allows conversion of existing LaTeX documents to word processor
     formats.

Input
A LaTeX subset with some additional hypertext macros; no maths,
minimal table support.

Output
  *  ordinary RTF
  *  Windows Help hypertext RTF
  *  HTML (the World Wide Web hypertext format)
  *  wxHelp (the wxWindows GUI library help file format)

Platforms supported
  *  SPARC Open Look
  *  SPARC Motif
  *  Windows 3.1

Where to get it
The latest version of Tex2RTF can be accessed by anonymous ftp from
skye.aiai.ed.ac.uk (192.41.104.6) in the directory /pub/tex2rtf.

Tex2RTF was developed using the free Open Look/Motif/Windows 3.1 C++
class library wxWindows, also available from the above FTP site in the
/pub/wxwin/beta directory.

------------------------------------------------------------------
Julian Smart, April 1994

Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH1 1HN

EMAIL: J.Smart@ed.ac.uk
TEL:   031 650 2746

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(the converter is also available from 
 ftp.uni-stuttgart.de, directory /pub/tex/support/tex2rtf,
 and other sites, e.g. ftp.shsu.edu)

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B. Commercial software

There is some commercial software which is said to convert
the full set of formatting possibilities, however I have neither
own experiences with it nor heard from other users about it:

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TeX and LaTeX
     to 
       WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, PageMaker, or Ventura

TexPort, a DOS program by K-Talk Communications, converts TeX and
LaTeX documents to WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, PageMaker, or
Ventura documents.

TexPort converts:
  - Non-English phrases, European accent characters
  - Greek characters
  - Math and Scientific notation
  - Equations: inline and display-style
  - Font styles (bold, italic)
  - Footnotes
  - Simple tables

TexPort includes the Professional Edition of MathEdit, K-Talk's
WYSIWYG equation editor.  The price is $400.00 (US).
by K-Talk Communications, Inc. 
ph. (614) 488-8818 
fx. (614) 488-9505   ktalk@delphi.com  or ktalk@aol.com

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WORD/RTF -> LATEX
=================

The translation of mathematical expressions seems to be
different for formula fields and for equation editor objects.
One way to translate eqnedit objects is
to buy the full version of the eqnedit, called MathType.
This is able to put the formula to clipboard in TeX format,
you can then paste it to wherever you want.
However it seems that this is rather clumsy because
you have it to do for each formula one by one. 
(I hadn't yet the opportunity to test MathType.)

Formula fields could possibly be translated by some means.

A. Freeware translators: 

1. RTFLATEX, a package consisting of a program in pascal
   which translates RTF to LaTeX-like commands. The TeX macro
   definitions for these commands are supplied in a separate
   sty - file which however does not yet support formulas or
   tables. The Word document must first be saved to disk in
   RTF format.
   Written by Daniel TAUPIN,
     Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, 91405 ORSAY, France
   Package is available from rsovax.ups.circe.fr
     (or rsovax.lps.u-psud.fr), Directory [anonymous.rtf2tex]
   You should use username anonymous, password ftp, because 
   the usual entrance (user ftp, password your_internet_address)
   does not work. 
   Change to directory rtf2tex and download rtflatex.dos_zip
   in binary mode.
   Also try CTAN sites (those servers which supply TeX stuff -
   e.g. ftp.shsu.edu, ftp.uni-stuttgart.de)

2. rtf2LaTeX for use on Unix-like systems.
   Can be found on all CTAN sites.
   At the moment converts text elements,
   but no formulas and no graphics.

3. WINW2LTX - a set of macros for WinWord 2
   written by:  
     Allin Cottrell
     Department of Economics
     Box 7505
     Wake Forest University
     Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA
     (910) 759_5762
     cottrell@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu
   available from TeX-servers, e.g.
   ftp.uni-stuttgart.de, 
   directory /pub/tex/support/winw2ltx
   (5 files in uncompressed form - download binary!)
   and on other CTAN sites, e.g. ftp.shsu.edu

4. Save the Word document in WordPerfect 5.1 format. 
   Then there is a program called WP2LaTeX, written in C
   and compiled for use under MSDOS, written by
   Rob Houtepen, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
   rcwarh@urc.tue.nl
   The latest version (3.0a from Jan 94) 
   makes a first try to convert formulas, but is said 
   by the author that this is not yet working properly.
   Downloadable from ftp.urc.tue.nl,
   directory /pub/tex/wp2latex
   Also try CTAN sites (those servers which supply TeX stuff)

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B. Commercial Software

There is some commercial software which is said to convert
the full set of formatting possibilities, however I have neither
own experiences with it nor heard from other users about it:

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    - Typeset quality with the ease of word processing
    - No need for training sessions or workshops
    - Designed for documents of any length or complexity

Publishing Companion translates the following to plain TeX or
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 - Automatic Indexes          - Newspaper-style Columns
 - Boxes                      - Non-break Hyphens & Spaces
 - Centering                  - Outlines
 - Endnotes                   - Page Numbering
 - Flush Right                - Paragraphs
 - Footnotes                  - Parallel Columns
 - Foreign Characters         - Point Sizes
 - Full Fonts                 - Redlining
 - Horizontal Lines           - Running Headers & Footers
 - Indents                    - Soft Hyphens
 - Justification              - Strikeout
 - Mail Merge                 - Superscripts & Subscripts 
 - MathEdit Math Equations      - Table of Contents
 - MS Word 6.0 Math Equations   - Type Styles (bold, italic)
 - WordPerfect Math Equations   - Widows & Orphans on/off 

With Publishing Companion, you don't have to learn TeX to produce
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