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This is a list of RTF/Word/WP <-> LaTeX - converters,
as of May 11, 1998
Note that it contains information about converters
ONLY between LaTeX on one side and PC word processors
and MS Excel on the other side.
Converters to and from other formats may have own FAQ lists. 

The latest version of this list as well as a short German version
can always be obtained via
<http://www.kfa-juelich.de/isr/1/texconv.html>,
a page containing links to both the html and the text version of the FAQ list.

The lists also reside on CTAN in the directory
.../help/wp-conv/
(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 the suggestions of several people, I am posting this list
_regularly_ once a month to comp.text.tex and aus.computers.tex.
I hope this frequency fits most needs.

This list is as good or as bad as its support,
and I need YOUR support to update and supplement this list.

Please supplement if you know more and/or better ones.
There are some more converters on the CTAN sites,
but the following seem to be most promising for conversion
to and from the currect versions of wordprocessors. 

Neither correctness nor completeness is guaranteed.
All opinions mentioned (if any) are my own, not my employer's.
Please send corrections, enhancements and supplements
to the following address:
e-mail: <W.Hennings@fz-juelich.de>
Fax:    (+49) 2461 61 8254
Mail:   W. Hennings c./o.
        Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
        ISR
        D-52425 Juelich
        Germany



Some general remarks on converting LaTeX documents.
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The preferred way to convert to or from PC textprocessors
was to use RTF as an intermediate format,
because it is coded in ASCII and its structure is described
in freely available documents. However there are several versions
of RTF depending of the version of textprocessor. While
the latest version of Microsoft Word for Windows can read all
versions of RTF, most converters are limited to an earlier RTF version.
I do not know how to tell MS Word for Windows 6/7 to export to
an earlier RTF version.

Having in mind these problems arising with RTF,
I strongly recommend using HTML as an intermediate format.
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There are free HTML converters available from Microsoft for both
Word for Windows 6 and 7:
for Word 6: <ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WORDIA.EXE>
for Word 7: <ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WDIA204Z.EXE>
for Word for Mac: <ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/MACIA20Z.HQX>
Word97 contains it by default, but in contrary to the previous versions
it only recognizes heading styles if they are first converted into the
corresponding html styles.
I am not sure about WordPerfect.
Because HTML is a structured format, the conversion between
HTML and LaTeX is rather straightforward. Converters are
available from CTAN, e.g. in
.../support/latex2html or .../support/hyperlatex
and .../support/html2latex.
There remain the limitations of HTML compared to LaTeX,
i.e. there are many elements in LaTeX
which can not (yet?) be represented in HTML.

Although I got an e-mail telling about ongoing work to
use SGML as intermediate format for several conversions,
it seems not to be ready-to-use at present.

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LATEX -> RTF, WORD or WORD PERFECT
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As I said above, I strongly recommend using HTML as an intermediate format.
See the description in viahtml_e.txt how to use the converter "latex2html".

When using a LaTeX-to-RTF converter, the converter output will be in RTF
format.
This is a pure ASCII file containing all the formatting information which
can be read-in by Word for DOS, Word for Windows and Word for Macintosh.
As far as I know, also WordPerfect and others can read RTF.

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A. Non-Commercial:
Non-commercial converters can be found on CTAN sites.

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citation begin>>
+++++                  Announcing Tex2RTF 1.47                        +++++
+++++  A Free LaTeX to RTF, Windows Help RTF, HTML & wxHelp converter +++++

Purpose
=======
  *  Allows you to maintain manuals in printed and hypertext formats.

  *  Allows conversion of existing LaTeX documents to word processor
     formats (usually some 'tweaking' is required to conform to
     Tex2RTF restrictions).

Input
=====
A LaTeX subset with some additional hypertext macros; no maths,
minimal table support.

Caveat: Please do not expect to convert arbitrary LaTex files without
editing: this is not the primary intention of Tex2RTF. Success converting
existing LaTeX depends on your expectations and the style in which
the LaTeX was written. Tex2RTF does not accept pure TeX (non-LaTeX)
documents.

Output
======
  *  ordinary RTF
  *  Windows Help hypertext RTF
  *  HTML (the World Wide Web hypertext format)
  *  wxHelp (the wxWindows GUI library help file format)

Installation
============
Under Windows, please run the supplied install.exe program. The Tex2RTF
manual itself serves as an example input file, in the docs subdirectory
with various .sty, .ini, and .gif files that you may need for your
own documents. See the online manual for further details.

Platforms supported
===================
  *  SPARC Open Look
  *  SPARC Motif
  *  Win16 (Windows 3.1 / 3.11)
  *  Win32 (Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0)

Where to get it
===============
The latest version of Tex2RTF can be accessed by anonymous ftp from
ftp.aiai.ed.ac.uk in the directory /pub/packages/tex2rtf.
The WWW pages are at <http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/tex2rtf/>.

Tex2RTF was developed using the free Open Look/Motif/Windows 3.1 C++
class library wxWindows, also available from the above FTP site in the
/pub/packages/wxwin directory.
The wxWindows WWW pages are at
<http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/>.

------------------------------------------------------------------
Julian Smart, June 1995

Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH1 1HN

EMAIL: J.Smart@ed.ac.uk
TEL:   0131 650 2746

<<citation end

Also available from CTAN sites, dir .../support/tex2rtf

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latex2rtf

LaTeX to RTF converter, written in C.

citation begin>>
latex2rtf is a translator program that translates LaTeX text into the
RTF format used by several textprocessors, including Microsoft Word and
Word for Windows. It was written by Fernando Dorner and Andreas Granzer
in a one-semester course in our department. For the Copyright of the
Program see the file Copyright.

...(installation description deleted)...

- Try the program and report any errors to the address below.
 
--
Ralf Schlatterbeck                      email:    ralf@zoo.priv.at
Treitlstr.3/182/1                       Phone:    +43/1/58801/8176
A-1040 Wien                             FAX:      +43/1/8034419/23
Austria                                 Fidonet:  2:310/802.3
                                             
<<citation end

C-source and makefiles of the latest (May 1995) version
as well as an executable for MSDOS are available from
CTAN sites, dir .../support/latex2rtf.
(The ... stands for a host specific base directory,
which often is either "/pub/tex" or  "/tex-archive")

citation begin>>
Try getting the latest version (1.5) from ftp.vmars.tuwien.ac.at in /pub/misc.
This version should compile without warnings. Be sure to read the README file.

The latest version (Dec. 96) contains a bug which requires compilation with
gcc with the option -fwritable-strings
<<citation end

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ltx2word

LaTeX to WinWord 6 and 7(95) converter, written in Word Basic (Word macro).
Author: W. Hennings (myself) - see my address above.

ltx2w95.dot: 
Executable in GERMAN WinWord 7, probably also WinWord 6.
NOT designed for, but adaptable to non-German versions.

ltx2w97.doc:
Converted to Word97 by Carsten Schwartz <smike@vip.cybercity.dk>

Caution! Quick-and-dirty "pre-alpha" version! 
The author grants no warranty of any kind,
especially neither for functionality
nor for any damage caused by use of the program,
but suggestions for enhancement are welcome.

New version June 11, 1997: More tags implemented, 
e.g. now also converts \begin{tabular} ... \end{tabular} to a table and 
\begin{center} ... \end{center} to centered text. Still no formulae!!

Download: <http://www.kfa-juelich.de/isr/1/bin/ltx2word.zip>

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B. Commercial:

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citation begin>>

TexPort converts your TeX and LaTeX files to WordPerfect 
or Microsoft Word documents.

TexPort converts:

Font styles, such as bold and italic 
Footnotes 
Greek characters 
Math equations and scientific notation 
Inline and display format equations 
Simple tables, such as those that use the LaTeX macro "as is". 
Non-English phrases, European accent characters 
\def and \newcommand 

K-Talk Communications specializes in equations -
TexPort converts equations into MathEdit format equations,
K-Talk's equation editor.
These equations can then be used in WordPerfect, Word, TeX,
and other documents. The Professional Edition 
of MathEdit is included with TexPort.
The MathEdit for Windows demo can be obtained via FTP or WWW.
(See www page)

K-Talk Products Information:

WWW home page   http://www.ktalk.com/
FTP Site        ftp.ktalk.com, directory /pub/ktalk

K-Talk Communications, Inc.
phone: (614) 488-8818        1287 King Ave, Suite 203
fax:   (614) 488-9505        Columbus, OH 43212-2220
email: lisa@ktalk.com

TexPort is offered with either the DOS or Windows version of
MathEdit. With DOS MathEdit, TexPort sells for $400(US). 
TexPort with Windows MathEdit is $499.

(C) Copyright 1995 K-Talk Communications, Inc.

<<citation end

I tried this product, but it turned out not to be useful for me.
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LATEX -> FrameMaker
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The site
<http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/>
contains templates which make conversion from Framemaker to LaTeX more
easy. It also supplies converters
from Framemaker to LaTeX and
from LaTeX to Framemaker:

la2mml
Converts LaTeX documents to MML (Maker Markup Language),
a format used by FrameMaker, a page layout program available
for Unix, Windows, and Mac. 
USA site:
<http://www.ius.cs.cmu.edu/help/Document/latex2fm.html>
CTAN upload in progress.

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RTF -> LATEX
============

Some notes in advance:
One advantage of LaTeX is that it forces to structure a document,
whereas wordprocessors like Word/WordPerfect allow unstructured
documents. It is hardly possible to automatically structure
a document where there was no structure before.
However it is nevertheless possible to write a structured
document with a wordprocessor by consistently using styles.
Therefore, wordprocessor documents using styles
can be converted to LaTeX e.g. by a macro written for the
specific wordprocessor.

To use an RTF converter, the wordprocessor document must first
be "saved as" Rich Text Format.

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A. Non-Commercial:
Non-commercial converters can be found on CTAN sites.

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RTFLATEX, a package consisting of a program in Pascal
(also available as C-source) which translates RTF
to LaTeX-like commands and a separate sty - file
containing the TeX macro definitions for these commands.
It does not yet support formulas or tables.
Disadvantage: TeX file does not conform to LaTeX style.

Can be found on all CTAN sites, dir .../rtflatex
including source and MSDOS executable
(The ... stands for a host specific base directory,
which often is either "/pub/tex" or  "/tex-archive")

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rtf2TeX and rtf2LaTeX (written in C).
The Word document must first be saved to disk in RTF format.
I'd like to hear of experiences with these.
(They only handle RTF versions up to WinWord 2, not yet WinWord 6;
there are great differences between these rtf versions and 
I definitely have problems with WinWord6-rtf with any rtf-converter.)
   
   First, Paul Dubois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu> wrote an RTF reader
   and converter to plain text or troff.
   The version is dated April 1991.
   
 a)Based on this reader, Robert Lupton <rhl@astro.princeton.edu>
   wrote the rtf2TeX converter.
   Last revision date: May 1992
   He comments on this as follows (README-file):
   citation begin>>
    This is a first attempt at an RTF to TeX converter. The parts that
    handle fonts and such like seem to work pretty well, although they
    could be improved, but the table handling is a problem. I had a good
    deal of trouble trying to figure out what particular rtf control codes
    were supposed to do; this makes it hard to convert them into TeX.
    I have tried to produce good TeX, but this is not easy due to the
    sloppy way that many RTF writers generate redundant font and other
    changes.
    Many things are not handled at all, more due to my lacking motivation
    than to their intrinsic difficulty. For example, I don't support
    double columns, but it would be easy enough to do (I'd generate a
    control sequence to do it, and add the TeX code required to the
    TeX_defs file. I even have the TeX somewhere...).
   <<citation end
   So far the beginning of the README file. Later he commented:
   citation begin>>
    Most (all?) RTF is hopelessly unstructured (the equivalent of
        \bf \it Hello \rm World \bf He \it \rm said.
    ) and the code that I wrote tries valiantly to convert this to something
    sensible, in this case
        {\it Hello\/} World {\bf He} said.
    It is this attempt to make the output TeX usable that makes the code
    complicated...
    I did not try to convert equations or tables as I could find no adaquate
    description of either; I don't think that it would be very hard.
   <<citation end
   My comment is: Tables yes, but formulas will be difficult.

   Can be found on all CTAN sites, dir .../support/rtf2tex

 b)Based on these two, Erwin Wechtl wrote the rtf2LaTeX converter.
   Last revision date: Aug. 1993
   He comments on this as follows (README-file):
   citation begin>>
    rtf2LaTeX is a filter built on Paul DuBois' RTF reader that converts
    RTF (Microsoft's Rich Text Format) into LaTeX.
    rtf2LaTeX expends a good deal of effort in an attempt to make the resulting
    LaTeX maintainable and modifiable.
   <<citation end
   At the moment converts text elements, but no formulas and no graphics.

   C-source and an executable for MSDOS
   can be found on all CTAN sites, dir .../support/rtf2latex
(The ... stands for a host specific base directory,
which often is either "/pub/tex" or  "/tex-archive")
   

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w2latex, written in C. (C compiler necessary.)
Actually converts RTF to LaTeX.
The Word document must first be saved to disk in RTF format.

Advantages:
Converts text elements and formula fields.
Converts nearly all special characters of the
basic TrueType fonts (Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman)
I personally made some changes to additionally support
German left quotes and a few other special characters.

Disadvantages:
Does not convert the document structure
(i.e. headings are not recognised as such).
Does not handle other fields, equation editor objects, graphics.
Table handling is rudimentary (conversion of table cells
to minipages, but problems with borders).
It only handles RTF versions up to WinWord 2,
not yet WinWord 6.

Can be found on all CTAN sites, dir .../support/w2latex
German version is in dir .../support/w2latex/german
(The ... stands for a host specific base directory,
which often is either "/pub/tex" or  "/tex-archive")

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B. Commercial:

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Scientific Word and Scientific WorkPlace

citation begin>>

TCI Software Research publishes Scientific Word and Scientific 
WorkPlace.  Included with these products is a conversion program that 
will input RTF and output LaTeX.  This conversion will correctly 
convert Microsoft Word Equation Editor or MathType equations in the 
RTF file to LaTeX.  The conversion program is not available 
separately.

<<citation end

See <http://www.tcisoft.com/>

There is a "light" (and cheaper) version available called Scientific Notebook,
which is also capable of importing RTF and exporting (sort of) LaTeX.
See <http://www.scinotebook.com/>
They also provide a free 30 day evaluation version.


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WORD -> LATEX
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A. Non-Commercial:
Non-commercial converters can be found on CTAN sites.

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LAOLA

can read Word6- and Word7-documents under Unix and extract the text.

Excerpt from the WWW page:
"LAOLA is a collection of documentations and perl programs
 dealing with binary file formats of Windows program documents.
 LAOLA is giving access to the raw document streams of any program
 using "structured storage" technology to save its documents.
 ELSER is dealing especially with these streams as they are present
 in Word 6 and Word 7 documents."

See <http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~schwartz/pmh/>

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WORD2X
(c) D.P.Simpson 1997 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>
Converts MS Word for Windows 6.0 documents (binary!) to LaTeX or plain text.
See <http://word2x.astra.co.uk>
Written in C++, successfully compiled with GCC on
- Linux (Unix),
- Sun (Unix),
- DEC Alpha AXP under OSF/1 (Unix) (but some bugs during execution), 
- IBM SP/2 (RS6000) under AIX (Unix) (but some bugs during execution).
Does not compile with Borland C 3.1 (PC version); if someone manages
to implement the necessary changes and create a PC version,
please let us know.

Further development in progress.

Can be found on all CTAN sites, directory
.../tools/word2x
(The ... stands for a host specific base directory,
which often is either "/pub/tex" or  "/tex-archive")

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WINW2LTX - a set of macros for WinWord 2
now also available for WinWord 6
by Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>

Advantages:
Converts the document structure, i.e.
headings level 1 and 2 (and level 3 in German version),
bulleted lists and numbered lists,
and some of the special characters.
I personally adapted the macros to the German WinWord versions.

Can be found on all CTAN sites, directories
.../support/winw2ltx/english/ww2,
.../support/winw2ltx/english/ww6 
.../support/winw2ltx/german/ww2,
.../support/winw2ltx/german/ww6 
(5 files each in uncompressed form - download binary!)
(The ... stands for a host specific base directory,
which often is either "/pub/tex" or  "/tex-archive")

New German Version 5. Feb. 1998:
Added conversion of most special characters
from the standard font and the symbol font.
Added conversion of lists.
Formulas can not be converted by this macro, but after its completion
they can be converted by MathType, the full version of the equation editor.
Download latest German version from
<http://www.kfa-juelich.de/isr/1/bin/ww7toltx.zip>

Disadvantages:
No conversion of tables, graphics, formulas, fields.
(conversion of tables is planned for the near future)
Only for WinWord 6 and 7 (95)

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B. Commercial:

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The MathType equation editor, the full scale, commercial version
of WinWord's equation editor, is capable of converting its equations
to TeX format (plain TeX, not LaTeX; conversion to LaTeX is
planned for a future release).
MathType comes with a Word macro which will
convert all the equations in a Word document into TeX.

Design Science, 4028 Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90803.
Phone 310-433-0685  Fax 310-433-6969
email - mtinfo@mathtype.com or mtsales@mathtype.com
WWW - http://www.mathtype.com/mathtype/
FTP - ftp.mathtype.com


I personally have MathType 3.1, and it IS able to convert from
its own format as well as from WinWord's EquationEditor format TO TeX.
The backward direction (TeX to MathType) is ONLY possible for
TeX code which was produced by MathType (containing a TeX
comment which allows MathType to see how it was generated).
It also IS possible to convert from MathType to EquationEditor.

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EXCEL -> LATEX
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Non-Commercial:

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Excel-macro to convert Excel to Latex:
<http://www.jam-software.com/software.html>

The generated LaTeX code uses the tabular environment:
<http://www.hsh.no/~ag/tabular/>

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WORD Perfect -> LATEX
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A. Non-Commercial:
Non-commercial converters can be found on CTAN sites.

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WP2LaTeX, written in C, converts WordPerfect 5.1 to LaTeX.
The latest version (2.23.0b from March 1998) now converts formulas.
Can be found on all CTAN sites, dir .../support/wp2latex/fojtik,
MSDOS, MSWIN and LINUX executables.

Older versions are on CTAN sites in dirs
.../support/wp2latex/old and .../support/wp2latex-5_1
(The ... stands for a host specific base directory,
which often is either "/pub/tex" or  "/tex-archive")

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citation begin>>
From: John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com>
Subject: New WordPerfect -> LaTeX Translater
To: W.Hennings@kfa-juelich.de
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:16:36 -0400 (EDT)

I recently uploaded my WordPerfect -> LaTeX translater,
called TeXPerfect, to CTAN.  It's available in the
support directory under texperf
(.../support/texperf).
(The ... stands for a host specific base directory,
which often is either "/pub/tex" or  "/tex-archive")
Full C source is provided, as are executables for both
DOS and Linux.  The 00README file in the directory
provides more details.
John (forkosh@panix.com)
<<citation end

following extracted from the 00README file:

citation begin>>
CONVERSION FUNCTIONALITY
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Some of the LaTeX conversions performed by TeXPerfect are:
   o Suppose your input contains a greek alpha from the WordPerfect
     character set 8.  The output will contain $\alpha$ instead. 
     Most of the other special character sets provided by
     WordPerfect are similarly converted.  (This conversion is
     table-driven by the data in wpchrset.h, and can be easily
     augmented or modified.)
   o Superscripts, subscripts, bold, italics, etc, are all properly
     interpreted and handled.
   o "Hard" returns in WordPerfect _should_ generate an extra blank
     line, so that LaTeX will see them as paragraphs.  That
     functionality is mostly programmed, but a last-minute
     difficulty prevented me from completing it.  Also, no attempt
     is made to generate section/subsection/etc commands.
   o If your running text contains an expression like f(x),
     TeXPerfect will recognize it and surround it with $'s.  A
     variety of other ad hoc "rules" are hand-coded into the
     program to decide when to enter/exit math mode.  Needless to
     say, the decision isn't always right.  You'll need to correct
     tp's mistakes in Step 2 above.
   o Equations written with WordPerfect's equation editor will be
     reproduced "verbatim" by TeXPerfect, surrounded by \[ and \]. 
     The only correction applied is that 1 over 2 becomes
     1 \over 2, and similarly for various other keywords.  But no
     serious attempt to interpret and translate your equation is
     made.  Matrices, etc, will require considerable hand-tweaking
     on your part.  But at least you'll have what you originally
     wrote right in front of your eyes.
   o A little LaTeX preamble, etc, is provided, primarily for
     "cosmetic" purposes.  WordPerfect's margin settings, etc, are
     _not_ interpreted to construct this preamble.  You'll have to
     modify that information yourself.

WARNINGS
-----------------------------------------------------------------
TeXPerfect was written to interpret files formatted by WordPerfect
5.1 for DOS.  When run against 5.1 files, TeXPerfect is pretty
robust.  But, for this release, I commented out the lines that
check the version number.  If you're using WP/Win, it can prepare
output in 5.1 format.  I'd recommend you do that before using
TeXPerfect.
<<citation end

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B. Commercial:

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citation begin>>

Publish your books and documents using TeX or LaTeX with the help
of K-Talk's Publishing Companion (DOS). Translate WordPerfect or
Microsoft Word files to TeX or LaTeX.

    - Typeset quality with the ease of word processing
    - No need for training sessions or workshops
    - Designed for documents of any length or complexity

Publishing Companion translates the following to plain TeX or
LaTeX:

 - Automatic Indexes          - Newspaper-style Columns
 - Boxes                      - Non-break Hyphens & Spaces
 - Centering                  - Outlines
 - Endnotes                   - Page Numbering
 - Flush Right                - Paragraphs
 - Footnotes                  - Parallel Columns
 - Foreign Characters         - Point Sizes
 - Full Fonts                 - Redlining
 - Horizontal Lines           - Running Headers & Footers
 - Indents                    - Soft Hyphens
 - Justification              - Strikeout
 - Mail Merge                 - Superscripts & Subscripts 
 - MathEdit Math Equations      - Table of Contents
 - MS Word 6.0 Math Equations   - Type Styles (bold, italic)
 - WordPerfect Math Equations   - Widows & Orphans on/off 

With Publishing Companion, you don't have to learn TeX to produce
typeset quality TeX output.  If you do know TeX, Publishing
Companion simplifies production.

Publishing Companion by K-Talk Communications, Inc. 
with MathEdit Standard edition       $249.00 (US)
with MathEdit Professional edition   $399.00 (US)
plus shipping

K-Talk Products Information:

WWW home page   http://www.ktalk.com/
FTP Site        ftp.ktalk.com, directory /pub/ktalk

K-Talk Communications, Inc.
phone: (614) 488-8818        1287 King Ave, Suite 203
fax:   (614) 488-9505        Columbus, OH 43212-2220
email: lisa@ktalk.com

<<citation end

I tried this product, but it turned out not to be useful for me.
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LOTUS WORDPRO -> LATEX
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The following information is cited as received with no guarantee on
useability - I could not test it myself and I have doubts 
regarding import and export of WordPro formulas in Word or WordPerfect.

citation begin>>
Lotus WordPro has a good math editor that uses its own storage
format for stand-alone maths. They are also solved with the document,
of course.
I have been mailed by people that comment they bought WordPro just to 
have this feature. Using some metacomments in the Latex source and a bit 
of awk, it could be possible to do bidirectional equation modification in 
any latex document, even if there is no good way to convert the rest.

The format that WordPro uses for the math save/load is a ".tex" file.

WordPro documents can be loaded and saved in Word, WordPerfect, ...

--
C.R. Fernandez Ruperez
Dept. LSI - Universidad del Pais Vasco
jipferur@si.ehu.es

<<citation end

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NotaBene -> LATEX
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citation begin>>

From: Guido Milanese <MC1194@mclink.it>

This is to inform that there is a new program that converts
NotaBene files to LaTeX format. It is my NB4LATEX program, that
converts files from NotaBene4 (including ancient Greek and all
the symbols of logic) to LaTeX2e format. The program may be
downloaded from my homepage
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3023/
at the URL:

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3023/nb4latex.zip

This is also a little contribution to the issue ov 'visual'
editing for TeX. With this conversion program and its utilities,
you can use NotaBene for editing (seeing all the accents, the
Greek chars, etc.) and, at the very final stage of document
preparation, convert it to LaTeX2e.

        It is a beta version. Please contact me for any problem.
        Thanks, gm
<<citation end

remark by the FAQ maintainer:
Nota Bene's home page is <http://www.notabene.com/>

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FrameMaker -> LATEX
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The site
<http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/>
contains templates which make conversion from Framemaker to LaTeX more
easy. It also supplies converters
from Framemaker to LaTeX and
from LaTeX to Framemaker
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