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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: WORD to latex/tex
Message-ID: <1991May8.192216.8795@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 19:22:16 GMT
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In article <1991May8.114216.20756@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>, edgar@function (Gerald Edgar) writes:
>This must be a frequently asked question!  

So frequent, it's in Chapter 7 of the monthly TeX Supplement.

The MS-WORD-to-TeX converter therein is rather crude, but it's
better than nothing (maybe).

As for WordPerfect-to-TeX, there are many independent versions.  Even
I wrote one, though I haven't released it yet...  Just for prerelease
hype...  it is fully configureable, which means that if you want
boldfaced text to be converted as \boldface{#1} rather than {\bf #1},
you can just modify the .CFG file and you're in business.  ACtually,
it comes with configuration files that let you convert WP into TeX,
LaTeX, IBM-Script, and even GML.  I tried writing a troff
configuration, but not knowing enough troff, I did only a half-hearted
job.

[I sent it out over a year ago to beta testers, and they haven't sent
anything back, so I don't know if they've ignored it, or it didn't
work, or it did work or whatever...]