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From: sens
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:07
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:07
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Does anyone know of a program that converts LaTeX documents to wordperfect 5.1 format? I think I saw a post on the same topic a while ago. But since there wasn't any followup on it, such a program probably does not exist. In that case, is there any program that converts LaTeX documents to a "popular" word processor's format, either for pcs or for macs? I would like to know if anyone has ever tried to this. In case you are wondering why I would want to do such a thing, here is my story. I am preparing an instructor's manual for a textbook my professor is working on. Since this manual is going to be distributed free of costs to the instructor's who use my professor's textbook, the publisher does not want to spend money on typesetting the former. In other words, I am supposed to send them a (more or less) camera ready copy. When I recently spoke to the employee from this fine publishing house who is in charge of our project, I casually mentioned that I am using LaTeX and would like a set of macros from her so that the hardcopy will be exactly the way she wants it. A reasonable request, wouldn't you think? You can imagine my surprise when she said that she never heard of LaTeX (????!!!!) and that she would like me to use either wordperfect 5.1 (pc) or word (mac) so that she can do the final fine tunings by herself. Therefore, I can either try to be an amateur typesetter, or give her the heard of a program that accomplishes what I want. The quality of the output is really not important, as long as I do get legitimate a file. Come to think of it, the worse the output, the better ... Thanking in advance, Sunando Sen Department of Economics Telephone:(212) 998-8960 New York University Internet: sens@acfcluster.nyu.edu 269 Mercer Street, 7th Floor Bitnet: sens@nyuacf New York, NY 10003
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!acfcluster.nyu.edu!sens From: sens@acfcluster.nyu.edu Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: <None> Message-ID: <1992Apr11.000758.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> Date: 11 Apr 92 05:07:58 GMT Sender: notes@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Notes Person) Organization: New York University Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: acf1.nyu.edu