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From: weigele@fbihh.UUCP (Martin Weigele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sources.wanted,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word -> (La)TeX wanted
Keywords: MS Word, TeX
Message-ID: <449@fbihh.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 90 08:39:56 GMT
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Organization: University of Hamburg, FB Informatik, W-Germany
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weigele@fbihh.UUCP (Martin Weigele) writes:

>Has anyone heard about such a programm (that converts Word Files
>into (La)TeX files?) I am NOT talking about Word Perfect, but
>Microsoft Word. It could be MSDOS or Mac based, or some generic source.

Thanks for all the mail concerning this matter, even though mostly
asking me for a summary. Here it is:

- Nobody seems to know about a programme MS Word -> (La)TeX.

- Dave (fetrow@bones.biostat.washington.edu) suggested to do
Word -(A)-> Word Perfect -(B)-> LaTeX.

 (A) means commercial software (that comes with Word Perfect, I guess),
 (B) is the meanwhile well known wp2latex shareware. I havent't been
 able to try it since nobody around here uses Word Perfect, but I'ld
 assume that you might expect a lot of loss of formatting information
 inbetween all these transformations. Therefore we continue to
 do hand translation (what we did before the net request):

- Save MS Word files as text. Convert it to LaTeX by editing.
Or write a conversion programme and post it to the net...

Martin Weigele, FB Informatik, Bodenstedtstr. 16, D-2000 Hamburg 50,
WEST GERMANY.