ddmg0390@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (02/03/90)
Would anyone happen to know of a program (free, share or comercial) that would convert a Word file to a text file in Latex format? Please e-mail me any suggestions and I'll post a summary (if anything like that exists). Thanks in advance for any help. Dave Mattox ddmg0390@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
ddmg0390@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (02/03/90)
If the program dosn't exist would anyone know where I could get a description on how a Word file looks on the inside so (maybe) I could do it myself?
math1h3@elroy.uh.edu (02/06/90)
In article <111900114@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, ddmg0390@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > If the program dosn't exist would anyone know where I could get a description > on how a Word file looks on the inside so (maybe) I could do it myself? I can't tell you the internal format of a Word binary document, but if you save the document in RTF form, you get something that will give you a pretty good start. A little detective work should enable you to dope out the RTF. You might even be able to get a description of the format from MicroSoft. If anyone from MicroSoft is reading this (are you kidding?) I've seen a lot of requests on the net for a Word - TeX translator. How about packaging one with the next version of Word? David Wagner My opinions are independent of my employer's
ribet@maalox.berkeley.edu (Kenneth A. Ribet) (02/12/90)
In article <5471.25cdb8b1@elroy.uh.edu> math1h3@elroy.uh.edu writes: > ... >If anyone from MicroSoft is reading this (are you kidding?) I've seen a lot of >requests on the net for a Word - TeX translator. How about packaging one with >the next version of Word? > >David Wagner If you can save your WORD document in MacWrite (4.x) format, you might be able to use a DA called "Easy TeX." It was written by a Monsieur O. Piranneau and is sold by: Numerica 23, Bd de Brandebourg BP 215 94203 Ivry FRANCE. The version that I saw listed a price of $50. It seemed to be more or less shareware; it contains a message like: "Become a legal owner by sending $50 (US) or equivalent to the following address..." Easy TeX converts MacWrite documents into (Plain) TeX documents which give output which approximates that of the MacWrite document. For instance, it will convert an "alpha" (in the Symbol font) to $\alpha$. Of course, the resulting TeX document can only be a starting point, since the DA has no way of knowing that the symbol "I" in the sentence "Let I be an infinite group" should be in math mode. You have to intervene manually, either before or after the Easy TeX conversion. I personally think that it's better to leave WORD documents as they are, but if you're really forced to convert to TeX, then this might be a partial solution. Ken Ribet UC Berkeley Math Dept ribet@math.berkeley.edu Berkeley CA 94720 USA ...ucbvax!math!ribet