vdputten@ravel.inria.fr (Frits Van Der Putten) (03/07/91)
Does anyone have a source (or a script) that translates Word Perfect documents (version 5.1 or 4.2) into plain ASCII (or LATEX)? I brought several documents with me written in Word Perfect and no one here is using it so I can't read them any more.
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (03/08/91)
>>>>> vdputten@ravel.inria.fr (Frits Van Der Putten) (FvdP) writes:
FvdP> Does anyone have a source (or a script) that translates Word Perfect
FvdP> documents (version 5.1 or 4.2) into plain ASCII (or LATEX)? I
FvdP> brought several documents with me written in Word Perfect and no one
FvdP> here is using it so I can't read them any more.
There is a wp2latex (for wp5.0/1) program in our archives:
How to get wp2latex.arc from the archive at
Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:
NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.
Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
usually works.
by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).
ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
user name: anonymous or ftp
password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
cd /pub
don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
get TEX/TOOLS/wp2latex.arc
by mail-server:
send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server):
begin
path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
send TEX/TOOLS/wp2latex.arc
end
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Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet
Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')vdputten@ravel.inria.fr (Frits Van Der Putten) (03/11/91)
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
INRIA
2004 Route des Lucioles
06561 Valbonne, Cedex
France
Tel: (33).93.65.78.21
e-mail: vdputten@mirsa.inria.fr