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From: charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: wordperfect -> TeX conversion
Message-ID: <20100001@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Jul 90 00:41:23 GMT
References: <3263@leah.Albany.Edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> I am in interested in a program that will convert WordPerfect
> documents to TeX.  Such a program exists for T^3 but I have not
> encountered one that will work with WordPerfect documents.  Any
> information on a pd, shareware, or commercial program would be
> appreciated. 
>	Felix Wu

I don't have one.  But I whipped out a program to convert a
Volkswriter file to TeX (for a friend's thesis).  Its not hard.  Use
emacs to look at the WP file.  From that you can see what control
characters they use for various functions.

Another trick I used was to (again using emacs) edit the WP file to
put each char onto a separate line of text.  Then I ran the result
thru Un*x's "cat -v | sort -u".  I edited this file to remove the
plain characters [a-zA-Z0-9] etc.  This gave me a file with each
control character on a line.  I used it to document the purpose of the
control character.  From there writing the conversion program was a
snap.
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