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From: sens
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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