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From: extel@quagga.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard Lisse)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: MS-Word <--> (La)Tex???
Keywords: MS-Word, LaTex
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.112231.6463@quagga.ru.ac.za>
Date: 13 Feb 91 11:22:31 GMT
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Organization: Katatura State Hospital, Windhoek, Namibia
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In <6787@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl> stan@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Stan van de Burgt) writes:

>matsuda@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Kenjiro Matsuda) writes:

>>Hi, sorry for cross-posting this lazy novice question.  Does anyone know any
>>programs that can convert the MS-Wordly formatted files to LaTex format ones
>>automatically and vice versa, maybe on Mac?   I was just informed that there is
>>one that does this sort of stuff for between MacWrite <--> troff, so I gather
>>there must be a similar kind of program somewhere in the cyberspace.  

>I've seen this question before on the mac groups and on this group. Up to now
>I've seen no answer. I'd like to know more about this question. Are you looking
>for such a utility just for printing purposes, i.e. should the output of La(TeX)
>just resemble the word output as good as possible? Or should the LaTeX source
>should be as well-structured and readable as possible? The latter is not as 
>trivial as you might think! Also, how should things like pictures, tables, 
>formulas, etc be processed?

>			Stan.

>-- 
>   S.P. van de Burgt                       PTT Research, Neher Labs
>                                           PO Box 421, Leidschendam
>   E-mail: SP_vdBurgt@pttrnl.nl            the Netherlands

I would like to just be able to LaTeX the text soemone has entered
into Word, because the output is much nicer on the same printer.

I don't care how it looks in the .TEX file, I can read it no matter
what. I write them all the time and in uEmacs 3.10.

emTeX has these specials and perhaps one can leave them out in a
translator. And then there is gnuplot which does my little pictures,
thank you very much, outputs into /LaTeX/PICTeX/emTeX and HPGL, which
one can include into Word.


Please someone just write one. RTF to LaTeX (and back ?)


regards, el
-- 
Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse, Katatura State Hospital
Private Bag 13260
Windhoek
Namibia