Scribe/FinalWord to LaTeX conversion

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From: Jonathan Baron
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:53

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I have been using FinalWord and have just decided to try LaTeX.
Our computer has a program (from where I don't know) called
s2latex, which does a basic conversion.  But here is a little
file that might help to supplement it:

@heading REPLACE section
@subheading REPLACE subsection
@foot REPLACE footnote
@display ENV quote

You call this by saying
s2latex -s thisfile < FinalWordfile

Then the following replacements are also useful:

s/heading{/section{toc}{/g
s/section{/section{toc}{/g
s/chapter{/chapter{toc}{/g
s/@{[\achrt`<]*}/\\noindent /g
s/`/``/g
s/' /'' /g
s/'$/''/g
s/')/'')/g

These are used with the stream editor sed:
sed -f thisfile < outputofs2latex > finaltexfile

These two things together will handle almost everything in a
basic, nonfancy, manuscript.  (Tables excluded.)

Jon Baron

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