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From: stan@dnlunx.pttrnl.nl (Stan van de Burgt)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: MS-Word <--> (La)Tex???
Keywords: MS-Word, LaTex
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Date: 11 Feb 91 23:16:42 GMT
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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.

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