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From: ijlustig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Irvin Lustig)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX to Microsoft RTF
Keywords: TeX, RTF, Conversion
Message-ID: <14262@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 5 Mar 90 15:32:23 GMT
References: <1715@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: ijlustig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Irvin Lustig)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <1715@bnlux0.bnl.gov> kneifel@bnlux0.bnl.gov (Charles L. Kneifel) writes:
>Does anybody have a utility (Macintosh, PC, or other) which converts
>from TeX commands to Microsoft's RichTextFormat (RTF).  If it only
>did partial conversion, for example subscripts, superscripts, bold
>face, etc., that would be a good start.
>

How about the reverse?  Is it possible to take a document prepared
in MS Word, saved in RTF, and process it with TeX?  It would seem
that someone could write some macros to process the RTF format, which
has braces {} for grouping and uses \ to indicated commands.  

Has anyone does this?

	-Irv Lustig
	Assistant Professor
	Dept. of Civil Engineering and Operations Research
	Princeton University
	irv%basie@princeton.edu