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In <1993Oct11.224816.13977@flood.com> dave@flood.com (Dave Miller) writes:

>In article <93280.234651DJLQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> D Leavitt <DJLQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> writes:
>>I have Tex and LaTex files.  How can a wordprocessor like Wordperfect,
>>Word for Windows or Ami read these files?

>I spent what seemed like an eternity at my previous employer converting LaTeX
>files to WordPerfect 5.1 (the actual time spent was several months for a 200 
>page document but that included a significant re-write of the document).  The 
>only way I found to do it was manually: import each LaTex file as ASCII text 
>into WP and then strip out all of the LaTeX commands while adding the right 
>WP formatting.  

>Boring, tedious, mind-numbing, uncreative,...

>If you hear of anything better, drop me a line (I still know some poor S.O.B.s
>there who would rather not have to do this kind of stuff).

There's a wordprocessor out there called (I think) Scientific Word, which uses
TeX formatting.  I haven't tried it, so I can't say how well it works.

James
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