cthomas@f.adelaide.edu.au (02/17/91)
Hi Several years ago I came up against the problem of converting MSWORD formatted documents to LaTex format. I came up with a simple solution: simply print the MSWORD document out to a file using a simple printer driver such as those supporting Epson printers. Then use the printer codes inserted into the file as a handle to translation to LaTex. I wrote a barebones Turbo Pascal program to do this. My translator was primarily designed to cope with the host of italics, bolded text, superscripts, subscripts, IBM PC hiascii characters I use in my documents, plus it does handle headings to a degree. The program is sufficiently flexible to be expandedto cope with other needs. It is also quite fast. It worked for me and was a time saver ( I was assembling a large Microbiology manual at the time). Anyone interested in the source code/ executable files should contact me If too many ask I will post the source code on the net. Dr Connor J Thomas Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Adelaide GPO Box 498 Adelaide South Australia 5001 Australia Email: cthomas@f.adelaide.edu.au