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From: vdputten@ravel.inria.fr (Frits Van Der Putten)
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Subject: Re: WP51 conversion
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Date: 11 Mar 91 10:52:55 GMT
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In article <5007@mindlink.UUCP>, Rick_McCormack@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) writes: 
> 
> Gee, Fritz, my WP 4.2 has THAT conversion at [control] F5 "Text in-out".  I use
> the "generic word processor" format to ship stuff to my Mac, but I have also
> used the "ASCII" format, and it works great for writing Autoexec.bats,
> configuration files, etc.
> I don't have the 5.1 manual here, but I think it offers the same functions at
> the same place.
> 
> In addition, WP 5.0 and earlier came with a "conversion" program to reformat a
> number of file configurations into and out of WP.
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Well Rick, the original problem is that I have Word Perfect documents but no
Word Perfect so I can't read them (neither use  [control] F5 ).

Thanks to many positive remarks I came to the following solution:
(already send in alt.sources)


Piet van Oostrum says they have a wp2latex converter in their
archives (University of Utrecht).
Here is what I found thanks to many useful hints:

From lut.fi by anonymous ftp wp2latex.lzh
from suphys.physics.su.oz.au wp2latex sources in C and Pascal (including
makefile and .doc).
I tried the latter one and it is working well on wp51 documents!
Some features of wp are not converted such as:
- margin settings
- newspaper style columns
- line spacing
- top and bottom margins
- index
- references
- end-notes
- table of contents
- graphical images

In particular for publications written in wp51 it is annoying that references
are not converted.

Second: these sources originate from the University of Eindhoven
(Ron Helwig, rcronh@urc.tue.nl) so I have a feeling that the source of
Piet van Oostrum might be the same as this one.

     Frits van der Putten
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