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Article #11489FAQ: Converters between (La)TeX and PC Wordproc
From: Wilfried Hennings
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00
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This post is just a reminder of the existence of the FAQ. The latest version of the FAQ list can be obtained via <http://www.fz-juelich.de/isr/1/texconv/texcnv.html> The list also resides on CTAN in the directory .../help/wp-conv/wp-conv.zip This zip file contains the complete set of html and txt files but not the downloadable binaries and isn't updated as often as the original www pages. (The ... stands for a host specific base directory, which often is either "/pub/tex" or "/tex-archive") CTAN means "Comprehensive TeX Archive Network" See <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/CTAN.sites> for a list of CTAN-Sites Following a discussion with some people, I had to withdraw my recommendation to use HTML as an intermediate format for conversion RTF/Word/WP <-> LaTeX. I am sorry I cannot give ANY recommendations now. Reason: Some conversion route which works well for someone else does not work at all for me, and if I found out a way which works for me there is at least one other person for whom it does not work at all. Everyone seems to have different demands on a converter, and for each available converter there seems to be at least one system configuration where it does not work at all. So I am sorry I can only recommend that you try yourself. I am just giving a list what is available, but cannot tell you whether it will work for you. (I am still hoping that some day there will be some useable converters which can be generally recommended, either directly or via html, which by then should include maths as specified in the html4.0 draft.) Dipl.-Ing. Wilfried Hennings c./o. Forschungszentrum (Research Center) Juelich GmbH, ISR D-52425 Juelich, Germany email: <W.Hennings@fz-juelich.de> Tel. +49 (2461) 61 5570 ; Fax +49 (2461) 61 8254 FZJ Home: <http://www.fz-juelich.de/> ISR Home: <http://www.fz-juelich.de/isr/> Join the fight against spam! details at <http://www.cauce.org> All opinions mentioned are strictly my own, not my employer's.
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