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From: roelofs@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: wordperfect -> TeX conversion
Message-ID: <7145@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 4 Jul 90 19:52:37 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago
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In article <3263@leah.Albany.Edu>, fw104@leah (Felix Wu) writes:

>>> I am in interested in a program that will convert WordPerfect
>>> documents to TeX.

In article <7727@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu writes:

>Here's a wonderful opportunity to point out the advantages of
>being a member of the TeX Users Group. In TUGboat 10#4
>(Conference Proceedings of the 1989 meeting) there is an article
>by Anita Z. Hoover outlining techniques for using WP 5.0 as a
>front-end to TeX. In TUGboat 10#1 there's yet another article on
>the same topic. Both articles are more than just simple
>conversions; they actually set things up so that WP is a friendly
>front-end.

While this is undeniably an attractive capability, I think perhaps
you've missed the point of the original posting:  to someone with an
archive of old WP documents, or someone who receives WP-format docs
from a third party and must convert them to TeX, a "simple conversion"
is precisely what is desired.  (Or do these macros also do WP-to-TeX 
conversions?  That wasn't clear in your posting.)

I may also be wrong about Mr. Wu's intent, but a conversion program 
is all *I* wanted a few months back.  As an aside, most good programmer's 
editors can also be set up as good TeX front-ends, since TeX can be 
treated as just another compiler (memory constraints are occasionally
a problem, however... :) ).

Anyway, check some of the other recent postings for pointers to a WP-
to-LaTeX conversion program, at sites both US and abroad.


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