Re: Reading Tex/LaTex in Wordperfect or Others

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From: Kim Oldfield
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 22:53

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dave@flood.com (Dave Miller) writes:
>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.  

It sounds like you could get a macro to search and replace quite easily,
possably just for the most common formatting codes.

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Subject: Re: Reading Tex/LaTex in Wordperfect or Others
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