[comp.sys.mac] WriteNow -> TeX & FullWrite

flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) (08/18/88)

Any way to do this?  TranslatorDA (1.50, May '87) dies completely on
anything substantial, and will only convert to MacWrite, and ignores
feetnote I think.  The Translator program only converts to text, and does
ignore feetnote.

RTF format would probably be ok, as would WN's pseudo-RTF; I've got a Common
Lisp TeX to RTF translator somebody posted, which solves a small part of the
problem.

I've ordered the WriteNow upgrade, but haven't gotten it.  Anybody know if
this will do it?

From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
or_perhaps_Reply_to: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk

borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) (08/19/88)

In article <589@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk writes:
>Any way to do this?  TranslatorDA (1.50, May '87) dies completely on

The best way I've found to translate WriteNow to other formats is with 
PageMaker 2.0a or 3.0.  PM reads WN format just fine, and will save
(Export) text into Macwrite, WN, Word 3.0, or text files.  Read your WN
in, write  out as Word 3.0, read it into FW.

I'm not sure what this does with footnotes; the material I used did
not include them.  There might be some small differences going in between
formats like this, but the main part should make it fine.

-cbb
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